Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.

>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 time 
>changes?

Monotonic clocks are there for exactly that, no?
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