bug#50043: 28.0.50; USABLE_SIGOI undef code paths do not work correctly

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 09:59:35 -0500
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 50043@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
> 
> > But maybe it will be better to do it the same way we
> > decrease the timeout when a timer is expected to expire before the
> > timeout: we decrease the timeout, but still remember its value, and
> > don't return from waiting before the timeout unless there really was
> > some input.  This would avoid affecting unrelated features such as
> > accept-process-output.
> 
> I think that's already taken care of.  The timeout is recalculated on each 
> iteration of the main while loop:
> 
>        /* Compute time from now till when time limit is up.  */
>        /* Exit if already run out.  */
>        if (wait == TIMEOUT)
>       {
>         if (!timespec_valid_p (now))
>           now = current_timespec ();
>         if (timespec_cmp (end_time, now) <= 0)
>           break;
>         timeout = timespec_sub (end_time, now);
>       }
>        else
>       timeout = make_timespec (wait < TIMEOUT ? 0 : 100000, 0);
> 
> My reduction of timeout to 25 msec occurs after this.

So the result will be that on systems without USABLE_SIGIO we loop
more times with shorter timeouts for select?  If so, it SGTM.