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I have no idea how a man page for a Linux syscall gets defined or updated. What would it take to make the man page clearer on how bad select is, as per the article?

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The answer is often distro specific, but start here https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/

The issue is included in the main description and bugs section.

google Michael Kerrisk.

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