Hello Nikos, On 01/29/2016 10:08 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: > That is because the serious limitation of select imposing a limit > on the values a file descriptor can have, is mentioned too late > in the documentation in the notes section. The manpage should > warn and refer to poll as soon as possible. Agreed. I merged your patch, and in fact even expanded the details quite a bit to emphasize this issue with (glibc) select()/pselect(). > (patch attached) Thanks. (But inline patches are much easier to deal with...) Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
