On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:00:50PM +0200, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> While looking at pgstat.c to see how to peek for pipe data, I found
> readpipe=pgStatPipe[0];
> select(readPipe+1, ..);
>
> which is probably usually the same as select(pgStatPipe[1], ..) This fd
> arithmetics seem a bit dubious to me.
No, it's not pgStatPipe[1], it's select(2)'s first argument; max fd in
the sets plus one. Probably your code works because
pgStatPipe[1] == pgStatPipe[0] + 1.
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