On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 05:11:16PM +0200, Sven de Marothy wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 16:58 +0200, Michael Koch wrote:
> 
> > AFAIK Linux is the only one. If we want to stay portable we need to use
> > select() and wait for the time of the timeout. In libgcj its already
> > handled this way. Thats the safest.
> 
> Actually, I don't think we need to stay portable though. 
> The JDK docs say: "Some non-standard implmentation of this method may
> ignore the specified timeout."
> 
> So.. Presumably, Solaris supports it too. But we don't need to though.
> 
> Anyway, this is still better than before when it didn't work at all :)

Well, it will still be broken an most if not all non-Linux Unices. Even
on older (2.4 or older) Linuxes it will be broken.


Michael
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