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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 2d6c40cae8..8054abb6eb 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -4673,7 +4673,8 @@ 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> returns C<undef> and sets C<$!>. +On error, C<select> behaves like the select(2) system call : it returns +-1 and sets C<$!>. Note: on some Unixes, the select(2) system call may report a socket file descriptor as "ready for reading", when actually no data is available, |