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System call to examine the status of file descriptors of open input/output channels

select is a system call and application programming interface (API) in Unix-like and POSIX-compliant operating systems for examining the status of file descriptors of open input/output channels. An enhanced facility with support for signal masking is pselect. The select system call is similar to the newer poll facility introduced in UNIX System V and later operating systems. However, with the C10k problem, both select and poll have been superseded by the likes of kqueue, /dev/poll, epoll and I/O completion ports. Wikipedia →

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The Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin · 1791
Unix System Administration HandbookEvi Nemeth, Garth Snyder · 1989
The little SAS bookLora D. Delwiche, Susan J. Slaughter · 1995
Pthreads programmingBradford Nichols, Dick Buttlar · 1996
Linux System ProgrammingRobert Love · 2007
Learning the bash ShellCameron Newham, Bill Rosenblatt · 1995
The UNIX operating systemChristian, Kaare, Kaare Christian · 1983
TCP/IP IllustratedW. Richard Stevens, Kevin R. Fall · 1993

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