Gisle Aas wrote:
> Rafael Garcia-Suarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Change 24194 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2005/04/07 12:42:07
> > 
> >     Mention that select() returns -1 on error,
> >     as suggested by Hernan Perez Masci
> 
> Hmmm, returning a TRUE value on failure is quite unperlish.  I wonder
> how much software got this wrong?  For instance among the core modules
> we find code like this.

That's right, however returning 0 on non-error makes sense (see select(2))
and there are backward compatibility issues (in the event that some
code gets it right...)

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