From a84ed700985a55740a23c449f414ecf57367fe34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:49:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] select.2: wfix Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/select.2 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/select.2 b/man2/select.2 index d0bf61b3e..d061c2475 100644 --- a/man2/select.2 +++ b/man2/select.2 @@ -680,12 +680,12 @@ Modern versions of glibc use the (race-free) .BR pselect () system call on kernels where it is provided. .PP -Under Linux, +On Linux, .BR select () may report a socket file descriptor as "ready for reading", while nevertheless a subsequent read blocks. This could for example -happen when data has arrived but upon examination has wrong +happen when data has arrived but upon examination has the wrong checksum and is discarded. There may be other circumstances in which a file descriptor is spuriously reported as ready.