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ambrus
<P>The perlfunc pod does define the return value of the 4-arg-select:
<blockquote><P>
Most systems do not bother to return anything use-
ful in $timeleft, so calling select() in scalar
context just returns $nfound.
</blockquote>
<P>This is from the perlfunc manpage of perl 5.8.1.
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