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select function result is inconsistent with description man page
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| Did anybody meet the strange phenomena?
select return -1, but error is ETIME. which is different form man
page of solaris. select is invoked as block.
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| Valentin Nechayev 2005-12-31, 7:49 am |
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Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 01:39:06, haow80 (hao) wrote about "select function result is inconsistent with description man page":
h> Did anybody meet the strange phenomena?
h> select return -1, but error is ETIME. which is different form man
h> page of solaris. select is invoked as block.
Error lists in man pages are incomplete by definition and list only
most typical problems.
-netch-
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| David Schwartz 2005-12-31, 5:54 pm |
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"hao" <haow80@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1136021946.738718.298410@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Did anybody meet the strange phenomena?
> select return -1, but error is ETIME. which is different form man
> page of solaris. select is invoked as block.
Post the smallest complete, compilable program that demonstrates this
problem. I'll bet there's going to be a bug of some sort in it. The 'select'
function should return zero when it times out.
DS
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