According to the Open Group, my copy of UNIX Network Programing by Stevens, my copy of APUE, and select.c from Linux's source code, pollfd items with a negative fd are ignored by poll(), and the revents member is guaranteed to be zero for those items. This does not appear to be mentioned in the manual page, and likely should be. -- Michael Welsh Duggan (mwd@xxxxxxxx) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html