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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Closing pty slaves
Message-ID: <15909@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 89 12:49:31 GMT
References: <99@melba.oz>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <99@melba.oz> gnb@melba.bby.oz (Gregory N. Bond) writes:
>...  At that point, the select returns with the pty master ready
>for reading, but reading from the descriptor results in EIO. ...
>Why does select return read ready?  It seems to me that if select says
>read is OK, then read should work.

It did work---or at least, it did not block: which is after all what
select is all about.

Some people think this should be an `exception' rather than a `ready'
condition, but it works well enough as is.
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