[Secure Coding] master: Descriptors: Note explicitly that replacing select is the recommended approach (1207f12)

fweimer at fedoraproject.org fweimer at fedoraproject.org
Thu Aug 8 13:14:03 UTC 2013


Repository : http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=secure-coding.git

On branch  : master

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commit 1207f12b39206cd3b5f2f1181c5fdcda2b265d3c
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 7 13:40:34 2013 +0200

    Descriptors: Note explicitly that replacing select is the recommended approach


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 defensive-coding/en-US/Tasks/Descriptors.xml |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/defensive-coding/en-US/Tasks/Descriptors.xml b/defensive-coding/en-US/Tasks/Descriptors.xml
index bdf1fb2..7b92ab9 100644
--- a/defensive-coding/en-US/Tasks/Descriptors.xml
+++ b/defensive-coding/en-US/Tasks/Descriptors.xml
@@ -217,7 +217,8 @@
       be changed.  <!-- ??? refer to event-driven programming -->
       Calls to <function>select</function> can be replaced with
       calls to <function>poll</function> or another event handling
-      mechanism.
+      mechanism.  Replacing the <function>select</function> function
+      is the recommended approach.
     </para>
     <para>
       Alternatively, the library with high descriptor usage can



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