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Will select() return before next jiffy if waiting on a high resolution timerfd?

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – If I have A kernel with CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y, A coarse CONFIG_HZ (say, 100) and a file descriptor from timerfd_create with a sub-jiffy expiration Should a call to select() on this timer return before the next jiffy, as say, clock_nanosleep would? (HowTos)

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