Elsa MicroLink 33.6TQV on HP-UX 10.20 with vgetty

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On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Gert Doering wrote:

> I dimly remember that we have seen this on some other platform as well.
> It seems to be related to setting VTIME to something > 0.
> 
> At that time, we did not fix it, because nobody had time (and partly
> because I think that's a bug -- select() should return if there is 
> *DATA*, not "if a subsequent read() won't block" - but then, select() 
> isn't standardized *that* well...)

actually select returns if the program receives a signal.

That's why the mask should allways be checked.

     Tiago Umm Pascoal
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