; * src/w32proc.c: Update the commentary to sys_select.

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Eli Zaretskii 2016-03-01 20:18:10 +02:00
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@ -2062,10 +2062,11 @@ sys_spawnve (int mode, char *cmdname, char **argv, char **envp)
return pid;
}
/* Emulate the select call
/* Emulate the select call.
Wait for available input on any of the given rfds, or timeout if
a timeout is given and no input is detected
wfds and efds are not supported and must be NULL.
a timeout is given and no input is detected. wfds are supported
only for asynchronous 'connect' calls. efds are not supported
and must be NULL.
For simplicity, we detect the death of child processes here and
synchronously call the SIGCHLD handler. Since it is possible for