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Can i use select to send data on multiple interfaces as fast as the interface can process
I am an experienced network programmer and am faced with a situation where i need some advice.
I am required to distribute some data on several outgoing interfaces (via different tcp socket ...
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Why is select used in Linux
I was going through a serial program and I observed that they use select() before using read(). Why exactly is this required. Why cant we just directly call read() and check if it fails or not ? Also ...
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Is it appropriate to put blocking (without O_NONBLOCK) file desciptors to select/poll in Linux? [closed]
man select
BUGS
Under Linux, select() may report a socket file descriptor as "ready
for reading", while nevertheless a subsequent read blocks. This could
for example happen when data ...
