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select.2: Remove some ancient information about pre-POSIX types for 'timeout'
The discussion about pre-POSIX types for 'timeval' and 'timespec' is rather old, and these days serves mainly to complicate the page. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -267,32 +267,34 @@ with the desired
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.IR sigmask ,
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avoiding the race.)
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.SS The timeout
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The time structures involved are defined in
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.I <sys/time.h>
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and look like
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The
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.I timeout
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argument for
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.BR select ()
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is a structure of the following type:
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.PP
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.in +4n
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.EX
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struct timeval {
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long tv_sec; /* seconds */
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long tv_usec; /* microseconds */
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time_t tv_sec; /* seconds */
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suseconds_t tv_usec; /* microseconds */
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};
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.EE
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.in
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.PP
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and
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The corresponding argument for
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.BR pselect ()
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has the following type:
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.PP
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.in +4n
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.EX
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struct timespec {
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long tv_sec; /* seconds */
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long tv_nsec; /* nanoseconds */
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time_t tv_sec; /* seconds */
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long tv_nsec; /* nanoseconds */
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};
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.EE
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.in
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.PP
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(However, see below on the POSIX.1 versions.)
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.PP
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Some code calls
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.BR select ()
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with all three sets empty,
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@ -444,33 +446,6 @@ in the main program.
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or reading from a pipe that may be empty,
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nonblocking I/O is used when reading from and writing to the pipe.)
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.PP
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Concerning the types involved, the classical situation is that
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the two fields of a
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.I timeval
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structure are typed as
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.I long
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(as shown above), and the structure is defined in
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.IR <sys/time.h> .
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The POSIX.1 situation is
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.PP
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.in +4n
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.EX
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struct timeval {
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time_t tv_sec; /* seconds */
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suseconds_t tv_usec; /* microseconds */
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};
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.EE
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.in
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.PP
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where the structure is defined in
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.I <sys/select.h>
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and the data types
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.I time_t
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and
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.I suseconds_t
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are defined in
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.IR <sys/types.h> .
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.PP
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Concerning prototypes, the classical situation is that one should
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include
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.I <time.h>
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