socket select() question

[Edwin Eyan Moragas <haaktu@...>]

ey All,

this question is supposed to be for Diego and the LuaSocket guys.
however, it's more on the C side rather than Lua. i'm apprehensive on
mailing Diego directly. besides, others might also be interested. here
goes:

select() accepts a two tables. one for those that can be wriiten to
without blocking and another that can be read fronm without blocking.
if i read from a file descriptor and my buffer isn't big enough to
contain all that is read:
1.1) how will i know that there's still more to read from the file/socket?
1.2) do i have to read again from the file descriptor or is it safe to
pass it back again to select?

from the Luasocket reference:
"Another important note: calling select with a server socket in the
receive parameter before a call to accept does not guarantee accept
will return immediately. Use the settimeout method or accept might
block forever."
2.1) is this applicable to all platforms?

that's it for now.

salamat.
eyan