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From: linimon@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Mark Linimon)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: question on common usage of select call
Keywords: select
Message-ID: <9736@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 17 Oct 89 03:40:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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I know this isn't strictly a tcp-ip question so please excuse while I place
foot firmly in mouth...

A customer of ours is having problems porting code using the select ()
call (from a *NIX to another operating system, details on reuquest).  In
particular they (and now I) want to know if the practice of using
select () on other than sockets is widespread.  I already have proof
that it exists, and intuition that it's nasty -- I'm more concerned
with how widespread it is.

The documentation that comes to hand doesn't specifically address
the question of whether it is either allowed, disallowed, or whatever.

Email please, I will summarize if there is any interest and it isn't
"intuitively obvious to an extremely casual observer."

Mark Linimon
Software Engineer
Mizar, Inc.
reachable by linimon@attctc