Hi Paolo,
> I'm happy to deprecate the select module, since in general poll(2) is a
> superior interface.
I wouldn't want to deprecate it, because
- It's working fine (better than the 'poll' module which fails its tests
on various systems: Solaris [1], Cygwin [2], mingw [3]).
- It is by no way deprecated in POSIX [4].
- It is used by the 'nanosleep' module.
Bruno
[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-04/msg00086.html
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-04/msg00087.html
[3] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2010-04/msg00121.html
[4] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/select.html