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author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2008-01-20 00:09:59 +0100 |
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committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2008-01-20 00:09:59 +0100 |
commit | 2b6c08c775ae4e80b52aa41058ea5939f778b44b (patch) | |
tree | ac9d11e47616b23a9c4feb5e5a19468008b8a770 /doc/posix-functions/select.texi | |
parent | e606e4f86f58f108829f84777e565eebd0a467e7 (diff) | |
download | gnulib-2b6c08c775ae4e80b52aa41058ea5939f778b44b.tar.gz |
Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
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diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/select.texi b/doc/posix-functions/select.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1c6475263e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/posix-functions/select.texi @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +@node select +@section @code{select} +@findex select + +POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/select.html} + +Gnulib module: --- + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +mingw. +@item +When you call @code{select} with a timeout, some implementations modify the +timeout parameter so that upon return from the function, it contains the +amount of time not slept. Other implementations leave the timeout parameter +unmodified. +@item +On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin) and on BeOS, @code{select} can only be +called on descriptors created by the @code{socket} function, not on regular +file descriptors. +@item +On Linux, when some file descriptor refers to a regular file, @code{select} +may fail, setting @code{errno} to @code{EBADF}. +@end itemize |