Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 12:24:35 +0000
From: "Richard Dawe" <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
Sender: richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
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Subject: Slight clarification for select() info page
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Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

Hello.

Please find below a diff that adds a description of what n, p mean in
the descriptions of the FD_* macros.

Without this patch, if you are unfamiliar with select(), you will have
to read through to the example to see that p is an 'fd_set *'. This
catches me out every time I read the select() page.

Bye, Rich

*** src/libc/compat/time/select.txh.orig	Sun Dec 24 12:15:06 2000
--- src/libc/compat/time/select.txh	Sun Dec 24 12:16:10 2000
***************
*** 19,25 ****
  
  Each @code{fd_set} variable is a bitmap representation of a set of file
  descriptors, one bit for every descriptor.  The following macros shall
! be used to deal with these sets:
  
  @table @code
  
--- 19,26 ----
  
  Each @code{fd_set} variable is a bitmap representation of a set of file
  descriptors, one bit for every descriptor.  The following macros shall
! be used to deal with these sets, where @var{p} is a pointer to
! the @code{fd_set} and @var{n} is a file descriptor:
  
  @table @code