Re: [PATCH] poll(2) man page, likewise.

From: Martijn Sipkema
Date: Thu Oct 07 2004 - 10:23:35 EST


From: "Alan Cox" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On Iau, 2004-10-07 at 15:26, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > Wrong. It is a Linux kernel mistake to fail to implement a common
> > system call properly.
>
> Actually if you dig deeply only pselect() has posix guarantees, and we
> don't implement that.

pselect() and select() are both in POSIX and should behave the same
except for different arguments..


--ms


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