A problem with the select(2) interface

[MQ]

2007/5/16, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no>:
>
> MQ <antinvidia at gmail.com> writes:
> > No, that is not what I want. I think we'd better add a comments that
> > we *DO NOT WRITE TO THAT ADDRESS*, what the manual describes is that
> > there may be some platforms which write to that address. It's not the
> > same thing.
>
> Some platforms update the timeval and some don't, so portable
> applications must simply assume that its contents are undefined after
> the select(2) call.  It can not be relied on to contain either the
> initial value nor the amount of time remaining.  Thus your proposed
> change is pointless.
>
> And stop yelling, please.  It won't get you anywhere (except possibly my
> kill file).
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no
>


What is yelling? Did I yelling? I don't know how do you get this conclusion.
I just stated my opinion to let everyone understand what I was think about.
If you were threatening to remove my mail from you mail box, do as you wish.