"Michael Schuerig" <schuerig / acm.org> wrote:

> Mathieu Bouchard <matju / cam.org> wrote:

> > I don't know whether select() works at all on regular files.

> At least it looks as if it does.

This is very likely outside the interest of the discussion, but Linux's
select() is extremely slow.

It polls, and will block the calling process. This may be relevant if you
are select()ing on file handles (to pipes) on a machine that is network
laden.

> Michael

Christian.