Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 15:22:11 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Michael Mauch <michael DOT mauch AT gmx DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: RHIDE -- author(s) please read this
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On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Michael Mauch wrote:

> > I'm interested in knowing why you expect stdout (a write-only stream) to
> > be flagged by select() as ready for input.
> 
> Yes, I don't know this as well - but it is done in the
> djgpp\src\libc\compat\time\select.c if you compile it with -D TEST.

`select' does this because you can redirect stdout to a device (e.g. the 
null device) which is ready both for input and for output.  `select' is a 
general-purpose function, it does not (and should not, IMHO) decide for 
the application whether to test a stream for certain functionality or 
not.