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Document select(2) as obsolete.

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Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen 2014-01-19 00:21:45 +01:00
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@ -170,6 +170,18 @@ settimeofday
Use clock_settime instead.
select
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The fd_set system is poorly designed and the FD_SETSIZE is considerably smaller
than INT_MIN on most systems, which violates that the value of the file
descriptor shouldn't matter as long as it is between 0 and INT_MAX. It would be
better to use poll instead. There is also the problem that select uses struct
timeval instead of the superior struct timespec, though pselect solves tha
particular problem.
Sortix currently provides this function for compatibility reasons.
strings.h
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