fd-select

Name

fd-select -- Test for operations.

Type: function

Synopsis

fd-select( delayms set, readable writable haveexception);

Arguments

delayms

An instance of <fixnum>

set

An instance of <fd-select-set>

Return Values

readable

An instance of <list>

writable

An instance of <list>

haveexception

An instance of <list>

Description

Uses the select() system function to determine which of the file descriptors in the given set can be operated on. Returns three lists of file descriptors.