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select.2: Update NOTES on old glibc pselect()
Make it clear that modern glibc uses the kernel pselect() on systems where it is available. See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14411 Reported-by: mac@mcrowe.com Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk@konstanz.(none)>
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.\" 2005-03-11, mtk, modified pselect() text (it is now a system
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.\" call in 2.6.16.
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.TH SELECT 2 2008-12-05 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.TH SELECT 2 2010-08-31 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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select, pselect, FD_CLR, FD_ISSET, FD_SET, FD_ZERO \-
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synchronous I/O multiplexing
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.I sigmask
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argument.
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Since version 2.1, glibc has provided an emulation of
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Starting with version 2.1, glibc provided an emulation of
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.BR pselect ()
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that is implemented using
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that was implemented using
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.BR sigprocmask (2)
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and
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.BR select ().
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This implementation remains vulnerable to the very race condition that
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This implementation remained vulnerable to the very race condition that
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.BR pselect ()
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was designed to prevent.
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Modern versions of glibc use the (race-free)
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.BR pselect ()
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system call on kernels where it is provided.
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On systems that lack
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.BR pselect (),
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reliable (and more portable) signal trapping can be achieved
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