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Re: [hurd,commited] hurd: Fix timeout handling in _hurd_select
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Samuel Thibault <samuel dot thibault at ens-lyon dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Richard Braun <rbraun at sceen dot net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 13:40:14 +0200
- Subject: Re: [hurd,commited] hurd: Fix timeout handling in _hurd_select
- References: <20190829231727.13328-1-samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
* Samuel Thibault:
> 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?
Thanks,
Florian