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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Socket programming examples wanted
Keywords: socket IPC help
Message-ID: <20281@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 89 22:28:25 GMT
References: <101@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <430@cscnj.csc.COM>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <430@cscnj.csc.COM> paul@cscnj.csc.COM (Paul Moody) writes:
>I dont know what flavor of tcp/ip you are using, but all three that
>we work with say 'DONT USE SELECT'. Instead use a blocking accept
>and set an alarm.

All three that you work with are broken, then.

Select for reading returns true whenever an accept() will not block.
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