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From: okamoto@hpcc01.HP.COM (Jeff Okamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: What do you do after you've done select(2)?
Message-ID: <1180015@hpcc01.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Apr 91 18:46:37 GMT
Organization: Cha Cha Maru
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I have a question about the select(2) emulation in perl.

There are plenty of places that explain how to set up for the call to
select, using fileno and vec to build the bitmap.  What those same examples
DON'T provide is a good way to determine which file handle(s) are ready for
each operation.

One way that I have seen, after going back through the archives is to keep
an associative array with the names of the file handles and their fileno()
values.  What I am wondering is, is there a better way?