From: Jeff Putsch <putsch@...>
Date: 2002-08-22T06:17:04+09:00
Subject: Re: select on solaris

> djberge@qwest.com writes:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jeff Putsch [maito:putsch@mxim.com]
> > This does not seem right. First, there is never any data on the error
> > object, so why is select saying there is? Second once the end of the
> > file is reached, why is select continuing to claim both descriptors
> > have data? I'm sure I'm doing something wrong...

> err is in IO object, it's not the data contained within the object.

I know err is an IO object. My choice of words was cleary poor. The 
issue I'm having is #select takes an array of IO objects and should
wait for data to become available on them. It then (should) returns an
array of objects that are ready.

The behavior I'm observing is that it ALWAYS returns, claiming all my
IO objects have data ready on them (even after an EOF on the IO
object). The reality is not all the objects do. In the example(s) I posted
the "err" object should not have data at all, so it should not be in the
array of ready object, yet it is.

That, hopefully, better explains what I am seeing and why I need advice
on solving the problem.

Thanks,

Jeff.
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