Poll with zero or negative timeout

Tue Oct 23 11:02:23 UTC 2007

Joakim Tjernlund a écrit :
> And why not pass NULL as it was before?

The man 2 ppoll say:

"If timeout is specified as NULL, then ppoll() can block indefinitely."

So you are right, it's possible to passe a null pointer to do the same 
as negative value.

A new patch is in attachement.
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