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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Matthew Hagerty <mhagerty@voyager.net>
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Subject: Re: Proper use of select() parameter nfds?
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In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010706095736.0233de30@pop.voyager.net>; from mhagerty@voyager.net on Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:58:00AM -0400
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On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:58:00AM -0400, Matthew Hagerty wrote:
> I take this to mean that each descriptor set contains n descriptors and I 
> am interested in examining the first nfds descriptors referenced in my 
> sets.  I also understood it to mean that nfds has absolutely nothing to do 
> with the actual *value* of a descriptor,

If you are interested in selecting on discriptors 0, 5, 9 and 13
then nfds should be 14.

	David.

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