On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Rick Kwan wrote:
> qinglong@yggdrasil.com writes...
>
> > I've failed to utilize direct WAIS access support in libwww-5.0a
> > (libwww-5.1* just don't work for me on Linux --- they fail in deadloop).
>
> I don't know if this is the same thing or not... In libwww-5.0a on
> Linux, HTEventrg_loop() used to die on me. I traced this back to the
> select() timeout value on Linux being updated to the unused time. Once
> I got passed that it worked.
This should be handled as the following code enforces that the timeout
pointer is either NULL or points to an updated waittime structure.
-eric
------------------------------HTEvtLst.c-------------------------------
do {
wt = NULL;
...
if (timeout != 0) {
waittime.tv_sec = timeout / MILLI_PER_SECOND;
waittime.tv_usec = (timeout % MILLI_PER_SECOND) *
(1000000 / MILLI_PER_SECOND);
wt = &waittime;
}
...
active_sockets = select(maxfds+1, &treadset, &twriteset,
&texceptset, wt);
...
} while (!HTEndLoop);