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Re: select RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT. The meaning of all the *BITSby ikegami (Patriarch) |
on Oct 25, 2020 at 11:12 UTC ( [id://11123146]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
It's used to specify the handles to monitor for exceptional conditions. If you need it, you'd know it. Perl's select is a thin wrapper for the system call of the same name. From my select(2) man page:
From my poll(2) man page:
By the way, IO::Select presents a much better interface.
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