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From: "Michael Kerrisk" <michael.kerrisk@gmx.net>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	jakub@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl, akpm@osdl.org, mtk-lkml@gmx.net
Subject: Re: pselect() modifying timeout
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 22:08:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42F3E357.3257.1BD78615@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42F37CC5.6030206@redhat.com>

> Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> > Please consider making Linux pselect() conform to POSIX on this 
> > point.
> 
> There is no question the implementation will conform.  But this not
> dependent on changing the syscall interface.  We deliberately decided to
> not require the kernel interface to be different from select.  The
> userlevel code will take care of the difference.  The kernel code is good
> as proposed.

Okay -- thanks for the info.

Cheers,

Michael




  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-05 20:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ 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
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 [this message]
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

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