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| author | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-09-04 03:32:30 +0000 |
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| committer | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-09-04 03:32:30 +0000 |
| commit | b21324d129f87ea6a859ad4ddfa9a825a056d187 (patch) | |
| tree | 2e381b859880d3fdfad4f15bd1becf3277d5f3f2 /lib | |
| parent | 231ad713c4a4fa6928077b582101bda3738ef881 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-b21324d129f87ea6a859ad4ddfa9a825a056d187.zip FreeBSD-src-b21324d129f87ea6a859ad4ddfa9a825a056d187.tar.gz | |
Soften the statement about select's timeout argument. This part of
the system likely won't change in the future, but the warning is a
good idea.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/select.2 | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/select.2 b/lib/libc/sys/select.2 index 70d679b..44b14a3 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/select.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/select.2 @@ -186,10 +186,8 @@ reasons, .Fn select will always examine the first 256 descriptors. .Sh BUGS -.Fn select -should probably return the time remaining from the original timeout, -if any, by modifying the time value in place. -This may be implemented in future versions of the system. +The Single Unix Specification allows systems to modify the original +timeout in place. Thus, it is unwise to assume that the timeout value will be unmodified by the .Fn select |
