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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: select(0, ..) is valid ?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 19:36:36 +0200
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Badari Pulavarty napsal(a):
> Hi,
> 
> Is select(0, ..) is a valid operation ?

Yes, it was (is) sometimes used for measuring (sleeping for) short time slices.

regards,
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http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
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