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misc/57116: misleading description about timeout in poll man page
>Number: 57116
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: misleading description about timeout in poll man page
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: misc-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sun Dec 18 03:05:00 +0000 2022
>Originator: YAMAMOTO Takashi
>Release: NetBSD-current
>Organization:
>Environment:
https://man.netbsd.org/poll.2
>Description:
the man page says:
> If timeout is neither zero nor INFTIM (-1), it specifies a maximum
> inter-val to wait for any file descriptor to become ready, in
> milliseconds.
the text makes me think "it's ok to round it down".
but i believe it's the opposite.
ie. it's ok to sleep longer. but it isn't ok to sleep shorter.
see: https://github.com/yamt/toywasm/blob/42491d9274049490ee83b987498cf13430b890b0/lib/wasi.c#L811-L819
>How-To-Repeat:
man 2 poll
>Fix:
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