fix for socket timeouts (and a question about _Jv_select)

Sat Jun 30 17:33:00 GMT 2001

Tom Tromey wrote:
> Yeah. What this means is that select() examines the slots in the
> vector numbered 0, 1, ..., nfds-1. If you pass `1' as nfds, then
> select() will only look at the settings for fd 0. This is a goofy
> interface. Maybe we ought to use poll() instead. I don't know. I
> use select() since I have a bsd-ish background.

select() is more portable, usually. It should also work on Winsock, to
answer another question...
Jeff