Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.

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To: Mattias Engdegård <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.
From: Chris Friesen <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:57:34 -0600
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Mattias Engdegård wrote:

If we can design ppoll() any way we like, which seems likely, I would
prefer having the timeout given as an absolute timestamp.

Absolute timestamps are messy though. How do you deal with system timechanges?


Chris
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