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Subject: Re: GNAT.Sockets: Timeval_Duration is in milliseconds?
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:32:15 -0800 (PST)
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On Dec 13, 8:13 am, Simon Wright <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote:
> gp...@axonx.com writes:
> > On Dec 11, 3:33 pm, Simon Wright <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote:
> >> gp...@axonx.com writes:
> >> > Yep, it worked:
>
> >> > ..done with EXPIRED after  4.999302724
>
> >> So GNAT GPL 2007 handles _this_ call right -- which functionality was
> >> it you had the problem with? Do you have a test case?
>
> > Linux update:
>
> > Timeout value is in seconds here. So it is only a Windows problem as
> > to be expected.
>
> Looking athttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms740141.aspxit
> turns out that the Windows version of select(2) uses a struct timeval*
> -- so not surprising that it behaves as we were expecting. Huh.
>
> --S

Microsoft could fix that problem by checking the size of the parameter
passed to setsockopt without breaking all the software already written
for winsock.

George.