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+NAME="TCPIP-OPENBSD-ENHANCED-SELECT">Enhanced Select()</H1
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+>The network stack supports an extension to the standard select
+semantics which allows all threads that are waiting to be restarted
+even if the select conditions are not satisfied.</P
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+>The standard select() API: </P
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+>behaves exactly as select() with the additional feature that
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+>will cause all threads waiting in any
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