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VS and RT 6.0C: documentation bug for select(2)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Mon Aug 29 11:08:17 1988

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 88 11:07:47 EDT
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
The manual page for select(2) does not mention that select may return
EFAULT if one of the fd_set's is not a valid virtual address.

This problem exists on both VAX and RT, and probably in the Official
Berkeley 4.3BSD manual pages too.

John

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