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Subject: Re: select() bug
To: pmarquis@iname.com (Paul Marquis)
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> I guess in theory, you're right, though if a write() could succeed,
> shouldn't select() say that it would?

Thats certainly not normal for a lot of devices.  Most fast devices wake up
when buffers are half empty for example.

Alan

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