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

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Message-ID: <4649EFA4.9060000@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 May 2007 19:36:36 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
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 ?

Badari Pulavarty napsal(a):
> Hi,
> 
> Is select(0, ..) is a valid operation ?

Yes, it was (is) sometimes used for measuring (sleeping for) short time slices.

regards,
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http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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