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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Metin KAYA <metin@EnderUNIX.org>
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In the last episode (Jan 03), Metin KAYA said:
>   Hi all,
> 
>   How select(2) will behave if I give the "utimeout" parameter as
>   NULL?

>From the man page:

     If timeout is a null pointer, the select blocks indefinitely.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=select

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	Dan Nelson
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