6.5 Socket predicate reference
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Availability::- use_module(library(socket)).(can be autoloaded)
Sourcetcp_select(+ListOfStreams, -ReadyList, +TimeOut)
Same as the built-in wait_for_input/3. Used to allow for interrupts and timeouts on Windows. A redesign of the Windows socket interface makes it impossible to do better than Windows select() call underlying wait_for_input/3. As input multiplexing typically happens in a background thread anyway we accept the loss of timeouts and interrupts.
deprecated
Use wait_for_input/3