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select: strange behaviour
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Norbert Thies)
Mon Oct 9 16:58:13 1995
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 09:47:00 +0100 (MET)
From: Norbert Thies <norbert@taz.de>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <459feb$6bq@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Hi netters,
using kernel 1.2.10 and libc-5.0.9 I observed some strange
behaviour of select(2).
The following code fragment may document it:
struct timeval tv;
tv.tv_sec = 1;
tv.tv_usec = 0;
select ( 0, 0, 0, 0, &tv );
After the timeout has expired, tv.tv_sec == 0,
ie. the value of 'tv' has been changed in 'select'.
Since all other *IX systems I tried, do preserve
the original value it breaks code (actually: archie-1.4.1).
Do you consider this behaviour a feature or is it a bug?
ciao,
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Norbert Thies (norbert@taz.de); die tageszeitung, Berlin/Germany
