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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 17:30:18 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Frank Heckenbach <frank AT tim DOT gerwinski DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Patch for select()
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On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Frank Heckenbach wrote:

> IOW, as far as I understand the semantics of select(), when it says
> `ready', it means: you can do a read() now and it won't block --
> it'll either read some data, or return 0 to indicate "EOF", or
> return an error status.

Yes, that is how I interpret the return value of `select' as well.

Thanks for the explanations.  This will hopefully be corrected in the 
next DJGPP release.

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