fix for socket timeouts (and a question about _Jv_select)

[Nic Ferrier]

>>> Cedric Berger <cedric@wireless-networks.com> 30-Jun-01 5:59:03 AM
>>>

    No. You do too much Windows development.

Actually, I don't do any Windows development. I just don't use C that
much (I'm a java programmer).


    BSD doesn't define the first parameter of select like that:

Actually, I was following what the glibc manual says. 
It's pretty similar to the bsd details by the looks of it.

The glibc manual says this:

   The select function checks only the first nfds file descriptors.
   The usual thing is to pass FD_SETSIZE as the value of the 
   argument.

That leads me to understand that 'n' is a scalar quatity. The number
of file descriptors to check. 

Since I've only added one file descriptor to the fd_set it should be
1 shouldn't it?


Here's your bsd text:
     The first nfds descriptors are checked in each 
      set; i.e., the descriptors from 0 through nfds-1 
      in the descriptor sets are examined.  

I don't see how this justifies what you're saying. Maybe I'm just
misunderstanding the language.


Nic