Just to clarify the "horrible" interface. Yes, it could have been
written differently, though I did not want to drift to far from the C
API semantics(which I believe are perfectly fine). I posted the API
rewrite agenda(which made it into 4.2.0), several updates, examples,and
answered questions quite awhile ago. 

True the documentation is lacking, though I have not had the time to
work on it. I am planning on spending a lot of time before 4.3.0 because
I would lake to change the status of this extension from EXPERIMENTAL to
STABLE

socket_select() behaves exactly as the select() system call with a few
exceptions.

1. fd_sets are arrys: This means instead of FD_ISSET, use in_array() 
This also allows all the nice/powerful php features, such as using
array_walk()
2. It returns FALSE on error instead of -1
3. It forces you to at least pass one array, because some OS's socket
implementation (namely win32) does not allow select to be used as a wait
call

-Jason



On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 09:33, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> Yeah, I guess so.  It just isn't very clear how this is mapped to PHP in
> the current docs.  I will write up some better docs.
> 
> -Rasmus
> 
> On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> >
> > > So you save the original array of sockets to pass back in.  This is why
> > > the C API has FD_ISSET() to check the result of a select().  I really
> > > don't like this current behaviour of socket_select().  It will confuse the
> > > hell out of anybody coming at this from a C background.
> >
> > I always thought the C select() function also mangles the sets:
> >
> > (from 'man select')
> >
> >        On  exit,  the  sets  are  modified in place to indicate which
> >        descriptors actually changed status.
> >
> >
> > regards,
> > Derick
> >
> > > On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Philip Olson wrote:
> > >
> > > > I only get [0], never [1].  Did about 40 tries.
> > > >
> > > >   latest CVS
> > > >   ./configure --enable-sockets
> > > >
> > > > If you need more info, let me know.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Philip Olson
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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