From: Avdi Grimm <avdi@...>
Date: 2007-05-31T23:36:29+09:00
Subject: Re: select([]) method

In a nutshell, select() is a system call for use when you have
multiple IO events pending, and you want to handle the first one that
occurs.  So for instance if you have three network connections, and
you need wait until data comes in on one of them, you could use
select().

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Avdi