From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 12 19:35:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DE7637B404 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:35:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from priv-edtnes09-hme0.telusplanet.net (outbound02.telus.net [199.185.220.221]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDB3A43F3F for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:35:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sh@bel.bc.ca) Received: from REASON ([216.232.215.209]) by priv-edtnes09-hme0.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.17 201-253-122-126-117-20021021) with SMTP id <20030313033527.VJGQ26116.priv-edtnes09-hme0.telusplanet.net@REASON> for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 20:35:27 -0700 Message-ID: <000501c2e911$96ea79a0$d1d7e8d8@slugabed.org> From: "Sean Hamilton" To: Subject: first parameter to select Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:35:27 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, What is the first parameter to select(2) for? Microsoft's select ignores it, and it does not appear to have any valid use since it only allows constraints on values which are assigned by the system. Purely historic? sh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message