Subj : Re: Threading and Timeouts
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Wed Jul 20 2005 02:03 pm


"Giancarlo Niccolai" <searchforme@ingoogle.com> wrote in message 
news:dble90$c49$1@newsread.albacom.net...

> I can't see anything in the standards nor in relevant documentation
> suggesting that selected sockets/file descriptors should be non-blocking;
> OTOH, the purpose of select is to BLOCK your process until there's data to
> be processed, so...

    There is simply no guarantee that a *subsequent* operation *will* not 
block.

    DS

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