Re: about select ( synchronous I/O multiplexing)

From: Måns Rullgård (mru_at_inprovide.com)
Date: 04/26/05 

Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 15:53:16 +0200

Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> writes:

> On 2005-04-26, Jean-Baptiste <merci@pasdespam.fr> wrote:
>
>> What can be a file descriptor?
>
> Anything returned by open() or socket() for popen() or any

popen() doesn't return a file descriptor directly. Were you by chance
thinking of pipe()? socketpair() also returns file descriptors. 

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com

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