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@node select
@section @code{select}
@findex select
POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/select.html}
Gnulib module: select
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), @code{select} can only be
called on descriptors created by the @code{socket} function, not on regular
file descriptors.
@item
On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), error codes for @code{accept} are not
placed in @code{errno}, and @code{WSAGetLastError} must be used instead.
@item
This function fails when the @code{nfds} argument is 0 on some platforms:
Interix 3.5.
@item
On some platforms, this function fails to detect invalid fds with
EBADF, but only if they lie beyond the current maximum open fd:
FreeBSD 8.2.
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
When you call @code{select} with a timeout, some implementations modify the
timeout parameter so that upon return from the function, it contains the
amount of time not slept. Other implementations leave the timeout parameter
unmodified.
@item
On BeOS, @code{select} can only be called on descriptors created by the
@code{socket} function, not on regular file descriptors.
@item
Under Windows, when passing a pipe, Gnulib's @code{select} replacement might
return 0 even before the timeout has passed. Programs using it with pipes can
thus busy wait.
@item
On Solaris 2.6 and older, @code{select} applied to a file descriptor opened
for reading and associated with @code{/dev/null} hangs, waiting for input,
when instead it should return immediately.
@item
On Linux, when some file descriptor refers to a regular file, @code{select}
may fail, setting @code{errno} to @code{EBADF}.
@item
This function is declared in @code{<unistd.h>}, not @code{<sys/select.h>},
on some platforms:
IRIX 5.3.
@end itemize
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