select(2): a minor man patch and a question

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Wed Aug 1 17:40:00 PDT 2007


On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:22:50AM +0200, Sascha Wildner wrote:
> Nicolas Thery wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >DragonFly BSD has <sys/select.h> but "man select" specifies an older
> >synopsis.  Here is a
> >patch to change this.
> 
> Thanks, committed.

It should be noted that some DragonFly versions did *not* allow
including sys/select.h. Including unistd.h is relative portable and
works on most systems, sys/select.h is not present everywhere.

Joerg





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