NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/lang/c/16935

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From: [e-mail] (Shaohua Niu)
Subject: Non-block read
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To read from a socket without blocking, you can either use fork() to
create a new socket, or use select() to check whether you get something
to read in the socket. Select() is especially convenient when there
are more than one clients trying to read the socket. Try 'man select'
for more details.

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