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Re: select: strange behaviour
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (eichin@mit.edu)
Tue Oct 10 18:39:54 1995
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 95 04:57:41 EDT
To: norbert@taz.de
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.91.951009093146.23127A-100000@mogli> (message from
Norbert Thies on Mon, 9 Oct 1995 09:47:00 +0100 (MET))
From: eichin@mit.edu
The "strange" behaviour was documented as far back as 4.3BSD as the way
select was *supposed* to work. Archie isn't the only program broken
this way (Mosaic used to be another example.)