linux-kernel - Re: select(0, ..) is valid ?

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Message-ID: <20070515103440.696577b7@chirp>
Date:	Tue, 15 May 2007 10:34:40 -0700
From:	Mark Glines <mark@...nes.org>
To:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: select(0, ..) is valid ?

On Tue, 15 May 2007 10:29:18 -0700
Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is select(0, ..) is a valid operation ?

select(0, ..) is rather commonly used as a portable sleep() with
microsecond granularity.  Disabling it will break lots of things.

Mark
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