On select.

Author: janpgit

network.tex

@@ -1281,9 +1281,9 @@
 masks however it does not have to be so. The programmer does not have to deal
 with that. Traversing the sets is only possible one bit at a time and using
 \texttt{FD\_ISSET}.
-\item \texttt{select} is handy also for the possibility to write into a pipe or
-socket -- waiting for the other side to consume part of the buffer and thus free
-space for more incoming data.
+\item \texttt{select} is handy to get notified one can again write into a pipe
+or a socket -- via waiting in \texttt{select} for the consumer to read part of
+the buffer and thus free space for more incoming data.
 \item It is possible to use \texttt{NULL} instead of the descriptor set. Special
 case is to use \texttt{NULL} for all the sets in which case the syscall will
 block until the timeout expires or a signal is delivered.