Re: select() - Linux vs. BSD

From: Mike Castle (dalgoda@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sat Jun 02 2001 - 22:31:27 EST


On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 10:47:49PM -0400, John Chris Wren wrote:
> I would have said just the opposite. That if it you have a large number of
> handles you're waiting on, and you have to go back through and set the bits
> everytime you timeout that you would incur a larger overhead. From the

Use a temp fd_set and assignment.

fd_set readset;

readset=set_to_watch

select(n, readset, NULL, NULL, timeout);

mrc

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