Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!humus.Huji.AC.IL!yogi From: yogi@humus.Huji.AC.IL (yossi gil) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: using 'select' under Domain-IX Message-ID: <8808151603.AA06121@humus.Huji.AC.IL> Date: 15 Aug 88 20:34:24 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 8 X-Unparsable-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 88 19:03:54 JDT I don't quite understand how the 'select' call is supposed to work under Domain-IX. 'select' wants you to set the bits in a 32-bit int to represent which file descriptors you are interested in. This is fine except that under Domain-IX a file descriptor can be a number larger than 31. Is it 'select' useless on the Apollo or am I missing something here? Yogi