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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Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 01:39:06, haow80 (hao) wrote about "select function res
ult 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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"hao" <haow80@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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.

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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