Re: fds_bits

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:
>> > problem code:
>> > 	if (fds_bits[i]) {
>> > 
>> > declaration in sys/types.h: 
>> > /usr/include/bits/types.h:  __fd_mask fds_bits[__FD_SETSIZE / __NFDBITS];
>> > (there are a few other references, but i think this is the key one)
>> > 
>> > does anyone know what i'm supposed to do with this fds_bits thing?

You're supposed to inspect these things with the FD_* macros, try
man select
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