From a5688441599dd863e33017c4653385d53a0050c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2017 09:44:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] select_tut.2: Clarify an ambiguity with respect to select()
 and EAGAIN

See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196345

Reported-by: Sergey Z. <zhurxx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
---
 man2/select_tut.2 | 18 +++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/select_tut.2 b/man2/select_tut.2
index ebd3f58e4..01d79adfd 100644
--- a/man2/select_tut.2
+++ b/man2/select_tut.2
@@ -395,18 +395,22 @@ The buffers in the example below are 1024 bytes although they could
 easily be made larger.
 .TP
 7.
-The functions
+Calls to
 .BR read (2),
 .BR recv (2),
 .BR write (2),
+.BR send (2),
+and
+.BR select ()
+can fail with the error
+\fBEINTR\fP,
+and calls to
+.BR read (2),
+.BR recv (2)
+.BR write (2),
 and
 .BR send (2)
-as well as the
-.BR select ()
-call can return \-1 with
-.I errno
-set to \fBEINTR\fP,
-or with
+can fail with
 .I errno
 set to \fBEAGAIN\fP (\fBEWOULDBLOCK\fP).
 These results must be properly managed (not done properly above).