select

[Metin KAYA]

   Yes Rick, I'm asking this "indefinitely" issue. Is there anything
   that handle this NULL situation a signal, or etc.? How does Linux or
   FreeBSD behave?

> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:52:48PM +0200, Metin KAYA wrote:
>> 
>>   How select(2) will behave if I give the "utimeout" parameter as
>>   NULL?

> According to the man page:

>      If timeout is not a null pointer, it specifies the maximum interval to
>      wait for the selection to complete.  System activity can lengthen the
>      interval by an indeterminate amount.

>      If timeout is a null pointer, the select blocks indefinitely.

>      To effect a poll, the timeout argument should not be a null pointer, but
>      it should point to a zero-valued timeval structure.


> -- Rick C. Petty


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