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Re: [hurd,commited] hurd: Fix timeout handling in _hurd_select


* Samuel Thibault:

> Hello,
>
> Florian Weimer, le ven. 30 août 2019 13:40:14 +0200, a ecrit:
>> > From: Richard Braun <rbraun@sceen.net>
>> >
>> > Rely on servers to implement timeouts, so that very short values (including
>> > 0) don't make mach_msg return before valid replies can be received. The
>> > purpose of this scheme is to guarantee a full client-server round-trip,
>> > whatever the timeout value.
>> >
>> > This change depends on the new io_select_timeout RPC being implemented by
>> > servers.
>> 
>> Would it be possible to adjust scripts/build-many-glibcs.py so that the
>> new server code is picked up?
>
> The build of the change does not depend on the implementation
> server-side, it's only run-time behavior which depends on it. Servers
> have been updated a long time ago now, that's why I can afford commiting
> this now.

Oh.  I was just guessing what was causing the Hurd build to fail.  I see
that you have identified the real cause.

Thanks,
Florian


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