From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,8da181ade72859cf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 MSIE X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: timeouts References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 01:03:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.104.217 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1092877398 63.184.104.217 (Wed, 18 Aug 2004 18:03:18 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 18:03:18 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2829 Date: 2004-08-19T01:03:18+00:00 List-Id: Brian May wrote: > What is going on? Strict real-time behaviour is not required, but 7 > hours instead of 0.1 seconds is slightly on the extreme side. Is it possible that the task is handling other branches of the select and doesn't take the timeout branch during this time? -- Jeff Carter "I'm particularly glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age." Blazing Saddles 88