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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2019-07-06 04:35:31 +0200
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2019-07-06 04:35:31 +0200
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doc: Remove documentation of BeOS as a supported platform.
* doc/gnulib-intro.texi (Target Platforms): Mention that BeOS is unsupported. * doc/*-functions/*printf.texi: Don't mention BeOS specific workarounds. * doc/posix-functions/getdelim.texi: Likewise. * doc/**/*.texi: Update.
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@@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ 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 BeOS, @code{select} can only be called on descriptors created by the
-@code{socket} function, not on regular file descriptors.
-@item
Under Windows, when passing a pipe, Gnulib's @code{select} replacement might
return 0 even before the timeout has passed. Programs using it with pipes can
thus busy wait.