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From: Mark Glines <mark@glines.org>
Subject: Re: select(0, ..) is valid ?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:34:40 -0700
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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