From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [patch] select.2: Mention the fd size limitation early and refer to poll Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 15:23:26 +0100 Message-ID: <56AF6A5E.9040502@gmail.com> References: <1454058532.3459.1.camel@gnutls.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1454058532.3459.1.camel-c5N7Ur/I1ocdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.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 -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html