From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: select.2: s/minimum/maximum/ Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:22:32 +0200 Message-ID: <5215BC38.4040201@gmail.com> References: <20130819230019.190010@gmx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130819230019.190010-KK0ffGbhmjU@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "G.raud" Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 08/20/13 01:00, G.raud wrote: > In this part of the manpage: > > " The timeout argument specifies the minimum interval that select() > should block waiting for a file descriptor to become ready. " This isn't correct (though maybe there is room for a better wording). The 'timeout' places a ceiling on how long the call will block, but that ceiling has the *minimum* value provided by the argument. See what I mean? Cheers, Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html