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authorsteve <steve@FreeBSD.org>1998-08-24 01:09:34 +0000
committersteve <steve@FreeBSD.org>1998-08-24 01:09:34 +0000
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Describe what constitues an exceptional condition.
PR: 7666 Submitted by: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ and
to see if some of their descriptors
are ready for reading, are ready for writing, or have an exceptional
condition pending, respectively.
+The only exceptional condition detectable is out-of-band
+data received on a socket.
The first
.Fa nfds
descriptors are checked in each set;
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