Select and thread suspension on Kernel 2.6

[Francisco Jares Junior]

Hi,

Does "select" system call suspend the executing thread or the entire
process on Kernel 2.6?
The libc documentation
online<http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html#Waiting-for-I_002fO>
states that this system call suspend the process. But I guess it might
be
a bit outdated. NPTL was integrated on Kernel 2.6, and for me it sounds
more reasonable from that point in time onward to have "select" only
suspending the executing thread for the incoming and outgoing data.

Regards,
Francisco
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