From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...> Date: 2003-05-18T02:05:20+09:00 Subject: Re: select strange behavier On Sun, 18 May 2003 01:50:00 +0900, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote: > If data is nil, then it's EOF, so you should better not try to read further. > (If the input is a terminal, it will try to input more despite the user > hitting ^D, which is annoying.) Agree.. thats the reason I want to use 'select'.. How do I get data from the file-descriptor.. and if no data is available then the call should block until data becomes available ? -- Simon Strandgaard