> i don't think i understand what you're getting at. > it could be that the blog was getting at the fact that select > funnels a bunch of independent i/o down to one process. > it's an effective technique when (a) threads are not available > and (b) processing is very fast.
ack. but, you can select on the same fd in many processes. select usage is so idiomatic that this use is easy to forget, though i've written programs that take advantage of this myself. - erik
