On 11/28/17 9:41 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 11/27/17 2:47 PM, Ángel wrote:
>
>> Also there's the issue that select() _may_ modify the object pointed to
>> by the timeout argument [POSIX]. But it may not, in which case this
>> would end up oversleeping.
>>
>> On such system, doing eg.
>> sleep 9 & time sleep 10
>>
>> would end up sleeping 19 seconds.
>
> I can't see how, since the two sleeps would be performed by different
> processes, using two separately-initialized select calls.
Forget this, I see it.
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