> Select is defined as to return, with the appropriate bit set, if/when
> a nonblocking read/write on the file descriptor won't block. You'd get
> EBADF in this case, therefore causing the select to return would be a
> Good Thing.
How do you avoid race conditions if more than one thread is creating
file descriptors? I think you can only do that under very special
circumstances, and it definitely requires some synchronization.
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