Re: SysLogger subprocess

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:00:50PM +0200, Andreas Pflug wrote:

> While looking at pgstat.c to see how to peek for pipe data, I found
>     readpipe=pgStatPipe[0];
>     select(readPipe+1, ..);
> 
> which is probably usually the same as select(pgStatPipe[1], ..) This fd 
> arithmetics seem a bit dubious to me.

No, it's not pgStatPipe[1], it's select(2)'s first argument; max fd in
the sets plus one.  Probably your code works because
pgStatPipe[1] == pgStatPipe[0] + 1.

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