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| author | Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-07-15 07:53:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-07-15 07:53:42 +0000 |
| commit | 7ebcc426efefea9cd16ac6f565e72030c608f7a4 (patch) | |
| tree | d6c008b8ae357e7c4c800baa477713b82a6ee2f2 /lib/libc/sys/select.2 | |
| parent | d087ad9cc9c9a047e48ac7d97861bd67e56c4085 (diff) | |
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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/sys/select.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/select.2 | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/select.2 b/lib/libc/sys/select.2 index 058041ff1caf..9837eb5757a2 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/select.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/select.2 @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ is a non-nil pointer, it specifies the maximum interval to wait for the selection to complete. System activity can lengthen the interval by an indeterminate amount. .Pp -If +If .Fa timeout is a nil pointer, the select blocks indefinitely. .Pp @@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ was invalid. The default size of .Dv FD_SETSIZE is currently 1024. -In order to accommodate programs which might potentially +In order to accommodate programs which might potentially use a larger number of open files with .Fn select , it is possible @@ -179,14 +179,14 @@ before the inclusion of any header which includes .Pp If .Fa nfds -is greater than the number of open files, +is greater than the number of open files, .Fn select is not guaranteed to examine the unused file descriptors. For historical -reasons, +reasons, .Fn select will always examine the first 256 descriptors. .Sh BUGS -.St -susv2 +.St -susv2 allows systems to modify the original timeout in place. Thus, it is unwise to assume that the timeout value will be unmodified by the |
