stan wrote at 16:59 -0400 on Aug 24, 2009:
 > The firts thing I notice when comparing this function in 2.5.0 vs 2.5.2 is
 > that 2.5.0 does:
 > 
 > tv.tv_usec = 0;
 > 
 > and 2.5.2 does not. Could thim make a difference? Both do 
 > 
 > tv.tv_sec = timeout;

In 2.5.2, the memset sets the entire struct to 0.
2.5.0 is slightly more efficient, but otherwise the results
wind up being the same.

Nothing to see there.