Document a select() bug on Solaris 2.6.

[pspp] / doc / posix-functions / select.texi

diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/select.texi b/doc/posix-functions/select.texi
index 34896b9e6106ce70aa2a7a1adf91e78f2dafa0c9..a9aa263f0b43030839a3834d635bb2f44a624e24 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/posix-functions/select.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/select.texi
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ unmodified.
 On BeOS, @code{select} can only be called on descriptors created by the
 @code{socket} function, not on regular file descriptors.
 @item
+On Solaris 2.6 and older, @code{select} applied to a file descriptor opened
+for reading and associated with @code{/dev/null} hangs, waiting for input,
+when instead it should return immediately.
+@item
 On Linux, when some file descriptor refers to a regular file, @code{select}
 may fail, setting @code{errno} to @code{EBADF}.
 @end itemize