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| author | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2005-04-11 09:11:53 +0000 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2005-04-11 09:11:53 +0000 |
| commit | 5c477709a8f3aa3110d51ae872950c20ff14fed6 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e0d206fb658324180b0cc8446682e20826c9435 /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | 4e74047cb351e6ecf0af03b245859dc97e98c072 (diff) | |
| download | perl-5c477709a8f3aa3110d51ae872950c20ff14fed6.tar.gz | |
Make the four-argument form of select() return undef
instead of -1 on error.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@24223
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlfunc.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlfunc.pod | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 0fceb30dcc..552587aa5a 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -4603,8 +4603,7 @@ Note that whether C<select> gets restarted after signals (say, SIGALRM) is implementation-dependent. See also L<perlport> for notes on the portability of C<select>. -On error, C<select> behaves like the select(2) system call : it returns --1 and sets C<$!>. +On error, C<select> returns C<undef> and sets C<$!>. B<WARNING>: One should not attempt to mix buffered I/O (like C<read> or <FH>) with C<select>, except as permitted by POSIX, and even |