[Gllug] OT: Replacement for select()

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:36:05PM +0000, Mick Farmer wrote:
> In my C programs I use select() to find a file descriptor that
> has pending input.  On UNIXes this works with both file
> descriptors and sockets.

Last time I looked (and that would be years ago), file descriptors
pointing to actual disk files could never be anything but ready to
give you data.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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