Re: select and miliseconds

Aleksandar Bakic (bakicale@cps.msu.edu)
Sun, 25 May 1997 19:03:10 -0400 (EDT)

I also think it is supposed to (I haven't found any information in man
pages that would state the opposite), but it doesn't. I guess it is
fine to use microseconds in the Guile wrapper for `select'.

Aleksandar

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>
> >It seems that, at least on Sun machines, select() is not sensitive to
> >timeout values less than 1 milisecond (if you use any value less than
> >1000 microseconds and use select in a loop, you will reach 100% CPU
> >utilization soon). That is probably the reason why Guile's select
> >doesn't (yet) support microseconds.
>
> It doesn't? It's supposed to:
>
> In NEWS:
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