Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 02 Apr 1996 15:32:41 -0600 (CST) | From | Aaron Ucko <> | Subject | Re: Linux-1.3.81 |
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>However the old behaviour should be selectable; I'm not only thinking of >sysvinit that needs it but what about the Sparc port? Sparc Linux is >capable of running SunOS binaries, but it needs the Sun select() behaviour >ofcourse. Presumably the BSD compatibility library (libbsd.a) also needs it. >Unlike the timeval structure, there is no way to emulate the old behaviour. > >Now don't ask me how to implement this.. Pity that there is no "flags" >argument to the select() call.. An ioctl? Nah..
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