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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kio::pop3
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date:       1999-06-24 10:56:15
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On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Mario Weilguni wrote:
> The kioslave for pop3 might have a bug:
> in pop3.cc, line94:
>while (::select(m_iSock+1, &FDs, 0, 0, &m_tTimeout) ==0);
[...]
> So it should be:
> do {
>   m_tTimeout.tv_sec = 10;
>   m_tTimeout.tv_usec = 0;
> } while(::select(m_iSock+1, &FDs, 0, 0, &m_tTimeout) == 0);

Yes, setting the timeout before calling select() is mandatory.

What the timeout contains after the select call depends on the
Unix flavor: some of them return the remaining time then.

--Stefan

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