From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav-c5N7Ur/I1ocdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org,
linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [patch] select.2: Mention the fd size limitation early and refer to poll
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 15:23:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56AF6A5E.9040502@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1454058532.3459.1.camel-c5N7Ur/I1ocdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Hello Nikos,
On 01/29/2016 10:08 AM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> That is because the serious limitation of select imposing a limit
> on the values a file descriptor can have, is mentioned too late
> in the documentation in the notes section. The manpage should
> warn and refer to poll as soon as possible.
Agreed. I merged your patch, and in fact even expanded the details
quite a bit to emphasize this issue with (glibc) select()/pselect().
> (patch attached)
Thanks. (But inline patches are much easier to deal with...)
Cheers,
Michael
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2016-01-29 9:08 [patch] select.2: Mention the fd size limitation early and refer to poll Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
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