From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> Man page: nfsd.7 Issue: select(2) or poll(2) → B<select>(2) or B<poll>(2) "If the program uses select(2) or poll(2) to discover if it can read from the " "B<channel> then it will never see and end-of-file but when all requests have " "been answered, it will block until another request appears." Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> --- utils/exportfs/nfsd.man | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/utils/exportfs/nfsd.man b/utils/exportfs/nfsd.man index 9481670f9ffc..72fe5b1467eb 100644 --- a/utils/exportfs/nfsd.man +++ b/utils/exportfs/nfsd.man @@ -158,8 +158,11 @@ nfsd 127.0.0.1 1057206953 localhost .br to indicate that 127.0.0.1 should map to localhost, at least for now. -If the program uses select(2) or poll(2) to discover if it can read -from the +If the program uses +.BR select (2) +or +.BR poll (2) +to discover if it can read from the .B channel then it will never see and end-of-file but when all requests have been answered, it will block until another request appears.