X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B73FDF3.6080603@byu.net> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:54:11 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, gweobia@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Bug: select() does not modify timeout (arg 5) on return References: <815356.61157.qm@web35908.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <815356.61157.qm@web35908.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig67F23CC953D9CA9BAD9A5AB3" X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com --------------enig67F23CC953D9CA9BAD9A5AB3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable According to Javier on 2/11/2010 1:07 AM: >> I believe actually made a conscious decision not to alter >> the arguments when >> I first wrote select(). However, times have changed >> so it probably makes >> sense to alter it to be more linux-like now. >> >> I'll look into doing that. >=20 > Can we expect it to be patched in next version? Any plans to release next= version soon? And on the converse, any plans to fix the non-portable assumption in your code that the timeout parameter will be altered? All the world is not Linux. That said, yes, there has been talk of releasing cygwin 1.7.2 when a few more things stabilize. And with all open source projects, the answer includes the caveat: the release will be sooner if you submit patche= s. --=20 Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net --------------enig67F23CC953D9CA9BAD9A5AB3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAktz/fcACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCqQgCaAwS9hoe/1gfG8RqyLDgGRewx 0jkAniNqdmUU//2hNgSOvb/xSTzaER3Y =Jo1Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig67F23CC953D9CA9BAD9A5AB3--