Hi. I want to thank all those who helped me understand this concept
from my understanding the main pourpose in the Select API is to inform the main Task That there are one or more I/O requests pending At that point the main task should take this number which is typicall returned in the retocde field load into a BCT register (I guess my native tounge is Assembler) and loop processing all the request(s) The First function in the loop is to do a Accept the output of this which is socket address sturcture will make it clear which Client is ready to either read or Write Then the main Task does a GiveSocket Post the appropriate Subtask Seems like one of diffrence between IBM implementation of SOCKETS and Lets say Windows is that in Windows the Select api is an array of sockets While IBM it is a bitstring In Addtiion Windows Does doesn't have the Give/take/Socket api ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
