From: bert hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, jnf <jnf@innocence-lost.net>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:16:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050613091600.GA32364@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42AD2640.5040601@redhat.com>
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 11:22:56PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> pselect is portable, just not to current and old Linux systems. It's in
> POSIX for a while and the other Unixes have the interface.
Indeed - it has been documented since the days of Stevens at least. All
unixes that matter have it.
>From the application side, I pretty much really want pselect to work. It is
an embarassment to have a broken implementation, if we really think pselect
sucks we should deprecate it in glibc.
So, please, consider merging the patches.. ppoll is something else, I never
heard about it, but pselect is widely known.
Thanks.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-13 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-10 22:58 Add pselect, ppoll system calls David Woodhouse
2005-06-12 22:48 ` Alan Cox
2005-06-13 0:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-13 1:16 ` jnf
2005-06-13 3:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-13 6:22 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-06-13 9:16 ` bert hubert [this message]
2005-06-13 9:41 ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 11:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-13 11:14 ` Jakub Jelinek
2005-06-13 11:24 ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 15:38 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-06-13 16:02 ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 16:10 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-06-13 16:29 ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 16:31 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-06-13 21:58 ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 22:01 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-06-13 16:36 ` Jakub Jelinek
2005-06-15 11:36 ` David Woodhouse
2005-08-05 10:42 ` pselect() modifying timeout Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-05 14:50 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-08-05 20:08 ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-08 11:10 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-05 11:58 ` Add pselect, ppoll system calls Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-05 12:49 ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-25 0:04 ` David Woodhouse
2005-08-25 0:34 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-08-26 6:46 ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-06-13 15:35 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-06-13 7:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-06-13 7:29 ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 22:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-06-13 11:15 ` Alan Cox
2005-06-13 11:27 ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 15:40 ` Ulrich Drepper
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-13 19:38 Mattias Engdegård
2005-06-13 19:57 ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-13 20:08 ` Mattias Engdegård
2005-06-13 20:23 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-06-14 14:07 ` Mattias Engdegård
2005-06-14 14:16 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-06-14 14:42 ` Mattias Engdegård
2005-06-14 14:54 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-06-14 15:27 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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