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Subject: Re: Regarding select()
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:50:49 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > I am having some trouble implementing the code for select.
  > 
  > When I don't run the client, my server times out after the specified
  > interval, but when I run the client, my select function always returns -1.
  > 
  > Any hints on what could be going wrong ?

When select() returns -1, shouldn't you check errno?
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