I'll disagree with AgentM on exceptions. With select, an "exception" means an error, for example, the other side resetting the connection. "Has exceptions" roughly means that a read or write attempt would fail rather than hang while "can read" and "can write" means that such calls would succeed rather than hang.

I'll agree with him about OOB data. (:

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