Jürgen Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > Is the premature return from the system call (not caused by signal > delivery) allowed by any standard? How is this case handled in other > operating systems? > > E.g. the www.opengroup.org page for poll() tells me > that "... poll() shall wait at least timeout milliseconds > for an event to occur on any of the selected file descriptors." > OTOH, x/open does not seem to include the concept of > changing system time...
The POSIX standard does not include anyinterface to set the system time. This discussion thus is bejond the POSIX standard and Solaris should define something that is reasonable while looking at similar implementations in other platforms. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
