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Re: About the io_select call
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: About the io_select call |
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Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:20:21 +0200 |
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Hi,
Richard Braun <rbraun@sceen.net> skribis:
> In the hurd/io.defs file, which defines the Hurd I/O interface, the
> io_select call includes a timeout. However, none of the libraries and
> servers implementing this call receive it. What makes this argument
> "disappear" during stub code generation ?
It is a “waittime” parameter, which gets special treatment from MIG.
This is somewhat documented in
<http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/doc/unpublished/mig.ps>.
Thanks,
Ludo’.