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From: Ameer Armaly <ameer@charter.net>
Subject: select function question
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 17:51:08 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi all.
I have some question about select:
1. one of the parameters is called writefds; what does this mean?
2. what does exceptfds mean?
3. how do I automatically know when an fd has new data?