Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.

David Woodhouse wrote:
> Yes, we should make the time for ppoll() a 64-bit value, so you can
> request a time period longer than 24 days. Shall we also switch to
> microseconds?

I don't see the need for higher precision in this API and a change is
confusing.  There is nanosleep() for people who only want a delay and
that can be done with high precision.

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