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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: select(4 args) (WAS Re: time-limit on a <STDIN> ?)
Message-ID: <9024@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 6 Aug 90 17:54:21 GMT
References: <12170009@hpccc.HP.COM> <9000@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <1990Aug4.155801.6598@robobar.co.uk>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <1990Aug4.155801.6598@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:
: In article <9000@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
: 
: > If you have select:
: 
: Err, last I looked, the "having of select(4 args)" was rather too
: heavily buried within the BSD networking package #ifdefs.  I have the
: former, but not the latter (not on all my machines, at any rate), and I
: recall that it appeared to be more work than the 5 mins I had at the
: time to extricate it.  Was I wrong ? Any chance of an "official"
: extrication thereof ?

The chance is 1.0.

Larry