Re: bug#32452: 26.1; gnutls_try_handshake maxes out cpu retrying when server is a bit busy

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote on 2022-02-25:
> Gnulib's nanosleep appears to use select only for old Unixish platforms 
> that were relevant in 2000 but aren't practical porting targets any 
> more. So I installed into Gnulib the attached patch to simplify Gnulib 
> nanosleep by having it fall back on pselect rather than select ...

Indeed, the Unix-like platforms that did not have nanosleep were
  BeOS, Interix 3.5, Tandem NSK, Solaris 2.4.
None of them is relevant any more.

Bruno