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authorRodney W. Grimes <rgrimes@FreeBSD.org>1994-05-27 05:00:24 +0000
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+.\" @(#)select.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 3/25/94
+.\"
+.Dd March 25, 1994
+.Dt SELECT 2
+.Os BSD 4.2
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm select
+.Nd synchronous I/O multiplexing
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <sys/types.h>
+.Fd #include <sys/time.h>
+.Fd #include <unistd.h>
+.Ft int
+.Fn select "int nfds" "fd_set *readfds" "fd_set *writefds" "fd_set *exceptfds" "struct timeval *timeout"
+.Fn FD_SET fd &fdset
+.Fn FD_CLR fd &fdset
+.Fn FD_ISSET fd &fdset
+.Fn FD_ZERO &fdset
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Fn Select
+examines the I/O descriptor sets whose addresses are passed in
+.Fa readfds ,
+.Fa writefds ,
+and
+.Fa exceptfds
+to see if some of their descriptors
+are ready for reading, are ready for writing, or have an exceptional
+condition pending, respectively.
+The first
+.Fa nfds
+descriptors are checked in each set;
+i.e., the descriptors from 0 through
+.Fa nfds Ns No -1
+in the descriptor sets are examined.
+On return,
+.Fn select
+replaces the given descriptor sets
+with subsets consisting of those descriptors that are ready
+for the requested operation.
+.Fn Select
+returns the total number of ready descriptors in all the sets.
+.Pp
+The descriptor sets are stored as bit fields in arrays of integers.
+The following macros are provided for manipulating such descriptor sets:
+.Fn FD_ZERO &fdsetx
+initializes a descriptor set
+.Fa fdset
+to the null set.
+.Fn FD_SET fd &fdset
+includes a particular descriptor
+.Fa fd
+in
+.Fa fdset .
+.Fn FD_CLR fd &fdset
+removes
+.Fa fd
+from
+.Fa fdset .
+.Fn FD_ISSET fd &fdset
+is non-zero if
+.Fa fd
+is a member of
+.Fa fdset ,
+zero otherwise.
+The behavior of these macros is undefined if
+a descriptor value is less than zero or greater than or equal to
+.Dv FD_SETSIZE ,
+which is normally at least equal
+to the maximum number of descriptors supported by the system.
+.Pp
+If
+.Fa timeout
+is a non-nil pointer, it specifies a maximum interval to wait for the
+selection to complete. If
+.Fa timeout
+is a nil pointer, the select blocks indefinitely. To affect a poll, the
+.Fa timeout
+argument should be non-nil, pointing to a zero-valued timeval structure.
+.Pp
+Any of
+.Fa readfds ,
+.Fa writefds ,
+and
+.Fa exceptfds
+may be given as nil pointers if no descriptors are of interest.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+.Fn Select
+returns the number of ready descriptors that are contained in
+the descriptor sets,
+or -1 if an error occurred.
+If the time limit expires,
+.Fn select
+returns 0.
+If
+.Fn select
+returns with an error,
+including one due to an interrupted call,
+the descriptor sets will be unmodified.
+.Sh ERRORS
+An error return from
+.Fn select
+indicates:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EBADF
+One of the descriptor sets specified an invalid descriptor.
+.It Bq Er EINTR
+A signal was delivered before the time limit expired and
+before any of the selected events occurred.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+The specified time limit is invalid. One of its components is
+negative or too large.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr accept 2 ,
+.Xr connect 2 ,
+.Xr getdtablesize 2 ,
+.Xr gettimeofday 2 ,
+.Xr read 2 ,
+.Xr recv 2 ,
+.Xr send 2 ,
+.Xr write 2
+.Sh BUGS
+Although the provision of
+.Xr getdtablesize 2
+was intended to allow user programs to be written independent
+of the kernel limit on the number of open files, the dimension
+of a sufficiently large bit field for select remains a problem.
+The default size
+.Dv FD_SETSIZE
+(currently 256) is somewhat larger than
+the current kernel limit to the number of open files.
+However, in order to accommodate programs which might potentially
+use a larger number of open files with select, it is possible
+to increase this size within a program by providing
+a larger definition of
+.Dv FD_SETSIZE
+before the inclusion of
+.Aq Pa sys/types.h .
+.Pp
+.Fn Select
+should probably return the time remaining from the original timeout,
+if any, by modifying the time value in place.
+This may be implemented in future versions of the system.
+Thus, it is unwise to assume that the timeout value will be unmodified
+by the
+.Fn select
+call.
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+function call appeared in
+.Bx 4.2 .