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From: Mark Glines <mark@glines.org>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: select(0, ..) is valid ?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:34:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070515103440.696577b7@chirp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1179250159.2836.117.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com>

On Tue, 15 May 2007 10:29:18 -0700
Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is select(0, ..) is a valid operation ?

select(0, ..) is rather commonly used as a portable sleep() with
microsecond granularity.  Disabling it will break lots of things.

Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-15 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-15 17:29 select(0, ..) is valid ? Badari Pulavarty
2007-05-15 17:34 ` Mark Glines [this message]
2007-05-15 17:36 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-05-15 17:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-05-15 17:43 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-15 17:44 ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-15 17:57   ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-05-15 18:10   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-15 18:30     ` Andrew Morton
2007-05-15 18:36       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-15 18:44     ` Hugh Dickins
2007-05-16 15:37       ` Anton Blanchard
2007-05-17  0:59         ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-05-22 14:16           ` Steve Fox
2007-05-22 14:34             ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2007-05-22 17:49               ` Steve Fox
2007-05-18 13:21         ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-22  1:21           ` Nish Aravamudan

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