On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 06:55:12PM -0500, Allen Smith wrote: > In regard to one_event's optional timeout parameter, I am wondering > whether, in the case of having both events with their own timeouts > (whether timer events or i/o events with timeouts or whatever) _and_ > i/o events: > A. the timeout parameter servers as a maximum on how long the > select/poll timeout will be, even if the closest event > timeout is farther in the future than time()+timeout; or > B. if the timeout parameter only affects the select/poll > timeout if there are _no_ events with their own timeouts. > The manpage currently reads as if the latter is the case; I'm unable > to tell from the code, not being very good at C. If it is the latter > (option B) in the above, then it would be nice to be able to specify > an actual maximum timeout, especially to simply check "are there any > i/o events doable _right now_" (as in a timeout of 0).
i don't really understand the question. All timeouts are treated the same way whether it is a timeout watcher or an i/o watcher. -- Victory to the Divine Mother!! after all, http://sahajayoga.org http://why-compete.org
