Jeff Garland wrote:
I think that it is broader than sockets. The thread library, for
example, uses something that basically amounts to timeval in
some cases. Finally, if someone wanted to use a different socket
library (especially since boost.socket isn't in boost) why make
them rewrite this code?
indeed. select() is useful for many things. It has been used as
a replacement for nanosleep in case the latter was not provided,
it is used to test the non-blocking readability/writability of
file descriptors, and it is at the center of most event-driven
applications, i.e. the 'main loop'.
Regards,
Stefan
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