How will my program differ in behavior if I use non-blocking sockets with a select() call as opposed to using blocking sockets with a select() call?
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The select polling will not behave differently, only the receive/send functionality will differ between blocking/non-blocking sockets.
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So it does not make sense to use blocking sockets with a select call , right? Or is there a use case for this? – DaTaBomB Feb 24 '13 at 17:40
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select() won't behave differently. read(), write(), accept() and other I/O functions will -- they will never block on non-blocking sockets, while they might block even if select() tells they would not, although this is somewhat rare.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/5352634/259543
Not sure whether this behavior is allowed by POSIX, though.
