Re: select() on sockets considered harmful, use poll() instead?

[Alexandre Julliard]

Juan Lang <juan_lang(a)yahoo.com> writes:
> Dan wrote:
> > The suspect statements are:
> >
> > dinput/joystick_linux.c:      if (1>select(This->joyfd+1,&readfds,...
> > dinput/joystick_linuxinput.c: if (1>select(This->joyfd+1,&readfds,...
> > icmp/icmp_main.c:             while ((res=select(icp->sid+1,&fdr,...
> > netapi32/nbt.c:               r = select(fd + 1, &fds, ...
> > wininet/internet.c:           if (select(nSocket+1,&infd,...
> > wininet/netconnection.c:      if
> > (select(connection->socketFD+1,&infd,...
>
> These, at least, are safe:  they poll on a single file descriptor.

A single file descriptor can still be above 1024. select() should
really be avoided.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard(a)winehq.org