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Add select_timeout for pipes

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Issue by eholk
Wednesday Jul 25, 2012 at 22:00 GMT

For earlier discussion, see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/3016

This issue was labelled with: A-concurrency, A-libs, I-enhancement, P-low in the Rust repository


Part of #1255.

This would take a list of selectables, and return an option of which one was ready (possibly going ahead and doing the receive), or none.

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No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reviewing the earlier discussion in #3016 and the related work in #1255; done would require a settled design for selecting among pipes with a timeout and returning the ready selectable or none.

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Tech stack
rust
Domain
operating-systems
Issue type
Feature
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5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
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