nanosleep() replacement

[Darren Tucker]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:16:50PM +1100, Darren Tucker wrote:
> > I did some fiddling and got pretty close to the real nanosleep with the
> > modified function below.
> 
> wouldn't it make sense to return the correct errno like this:
[snip]
> Even though EINTR is the most common error in the degenerated select,
> it's not necessarily the only error.  E. g. EINVAL, which is returned
> by select if the timer value is invalid.  This is also a common error
> code for nanosleep.

Good point.  I hadn't taken much notice of what different errnos could
return, I just added a case to handle what I saw happening.  Happily,
nanosleep and select return pretty much the same errnos, so what you're
suggesting is probably a good idea.

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