Re: Problems with select (the other way around...)

[Ricardo Balbinot <rbalbinot () gmail com>]

tks.. a noob question (should have read the man page carefully).

Regards,
Ricardo

2009/5/15 Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ottawa on ca>

> > > > > > "Ricardo" == Ricardo Balbinot <rbalbinot () gmail com> writes:
>    Ricardo> tv.tv_sec = 1;
>    Ricardo> tv.tv_usec = 0;
>    Ricardo> FD_ZERO(&rfds);
>    Ricardo> FD_SET(handle_fd,&rfds);
>    Ricardo> retval = select(1, &rfds, NULL, NULL, &tv);
>
> The first argument to select is the highest FD that you want to look at.
> Essentially, this sizes the bitfields ("fdsets").
>
> "
>       nfds  is the highest-numbered file descriptor in any of the three
> sets,
>       plus 1.
> "
>
> so, you need to set it to "handle_fd + 1"
>
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