On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:33:23PM -0700, Nathaniel Gray wrote:
> Thanks, but this doesn't really help.  Perhaps I should say what I'm
> trying to accomplish instead of trying to let the types speak for me.
> The point is that when you select on a list of file descriptors
> there's a very good chance that you don't *only* care that file
> descriptor f is ready, you also have some ocaml data structure
> associated with f that you want to use with it in some way.  For
> example, you probably have a string to write or a buffer to read into.

It sounds also like you shouldn't use select at all, but consider some
of the more modern alternatives.  Here is a good place to start:

http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html#nb.select

Rich.

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