Yes, this looks right to me, but I think we're talking about os.read(), not fileobject.read().
Indeed, you shouldn't be mixing select() with buffered io, or all kinds of bad things can happen.
Everything I said applies to OS-level reads and writes, not stdio-level ones.
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