On 08/20/13 01:00, G.raud wrote: > In this part of the manpage: > > " The timeout argument specifies the minimum interval that select() > should block waiting for a file descriptor to become ready. " This isn't correct (though maybe there is room for a better wording). The 'timeout' places a ceiling on how long the call will block, but that ceiling has the *minimum* value provided by the argument. See what I mean? Cheers, Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html