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Date:      Tue, 18 Aug 1998 13:56:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   docs/7666: man page addition request
Message-ID:  <199808182056.NAA16531@bubba.whistle.com>

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>Number:         7666
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       man page addition request
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Aug 18 14:00:00 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Archie Cobbs
>Organization:
Whistle Communications, Inc.
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386
>Environment:


>Description:

	The select(2) man page doesn't describe what an
	"exceptional condition" is.

>How-To-Repeat:

	man 2 select

>Fix:

Index: select.2
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/freebsd/src/lib/libc/sys/select.2,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -c -u -r1.10 select.2
--- select.2	1998/06/04 21:05:46	1.10
+++ select.2	1998/08/18 20:55:54
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@
 to see if some of their descriptors
 are ready for reading, are ready for writing, or have an exceptional
 condition pending, respectively.
+The only exceptional condition detectable is out-of-band
+data received on a socket.
 The first
 .Fa nfds
 descriptors are checked in each set;
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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