> We observed that select sometimes returns 0 even though
> a NULL pointer is passed for the timeout.
>
> According to the man page and all our books, select returns
> 0 only if no fd is ready when the timeout expires.
> Consequently if should never return 0 if a NULL pointer is
> passed for the timeout (infinite timeout).
select returns when either the timeout is reached, a filedescriptor
becomes readable or writable, or _when a signal interrupts it_. You're
using a multithreading package (pthreads, I'm assuming, although even
linuxthreads uses signals to communicate between threads if I'm not
mistaken) which delivers signals to other threads to force context
switches. That's why it only happens during multithreading. What you can
do is check errno for EINTR and repeat the select call if necessary.
Incidentally, I like mpegtv. Keep up the good work. :)
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