5 POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/select.html}
9 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
13 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
16 This function is missing on some platforms:
19 When you call @code{select} with a timeout, some implementations modify the
20 timeout parameter so that upon return from the function, it contains the
21 amount of time not slept. Other implementations leave the timeout parameter
24 On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin) and on BeOS, @code{select} can only be
25 called on descriptors created by the @code{socket} function, not on regular
28 On Linux, when some file descriptor refers to a regular file, @code{select}
29 may fail, setting @code{errno} to @code{EBADF}.