- From: Erik Selberg <selberg@cs.washington.edu>
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 04:12:31 PST
- To: j.o.staurnes@usit.uio.no
- Cc: selberg@cs.washington.edu, www-lib@w3.org
j o staurnes writes: >> The first is that the select() timeout won't work under linux --- >> linux, being a more annoying flavor of UNIX, will zero-out the timeval >> passed to select. Yeah, I think it's dumb too. Anyway, the following >> #ifdef's in the patch fix it. > I disagree, Linux is one of the few OS' that select works as it > should. The timeval structure is modified according to the elapsed > time in the select call. Depending on your version of linux. 1.2.11 zeros the damn thing out. Perhaps a bug later fixed. Regardless of my opinion, it's still a bug in libwww that doesn't restore it. -Erik
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