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| author | Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> | 2015-01-22 13:24:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> | 2015-01-22 13:24:30 +0100 |
| commit | a5b5cb422e66f77cac34ded42631db6a067323cc (patch) | |
| tree | f7bd502e20d0d3de3c4bb0fbaf588e1b3f04c42b /doc/ref/posix.texi | |
| parent | a51111dd255189bd00eb28547491ee4a9bfa9ca1 (diff) | |
| parent | 8cf2a7ba7432d68b9a055d29f18117be70375af9 (diff) | |
| download | guile-a5b5cb422e66f77cac34ded42631db6a067323cc.tar.gz | |
Merge commit '8cf2a7ba7432d68b9a055d29f18117be70375af9'
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diff --git a/doc/ref/posix.texi b/doc/ref/posix.texi index 9182bd8db..356941f2d 100644 --- a/doc/ref/posix.texi +++ b/doc/ref/posix.texi @@ -567,7 +567,11 @@ This procedure has a variety of uses: waiting for the ability to provide input, accept output, or the existence of exceptional conditions on a collection of ports or file descriptors, or waiting for a timeout to occur. -It also returns if interrupted by a signal. + +When an error occurs, of if it is interrupted by a signal, this +procedure throws a @code{system-error} exception +(@pxref{Conventions, @code{system-error}}). In case of an +interruption, the associated error number is @var{EINTR}. @var{reads}, @var{writes} and @var{excepts} can be lists or vectors, with each member a port or a file descriptor. |