calls to select(2) ignore exceptions

[Godmar Back]

 Archie,

> 
> In the course of trying to track down an unrelated bug, I noticed that
> when calling select(2), kaffe is ignoring any "exceptional conditions".
> This seems like a bad thing to do. It should throw an IOException if
> there are any exceptions on a file descriptor.

 Why should it do that?  Can you give examples where exceptional
conditions are mapped to exceptions?

	- Godmar