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authorCharles-François Natali <cf.natali@gmail.com>2013-12-01 12:23:48 (GMT)
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Issue #19849: selectors: Document the possibility of early select() wakeup upon
EINTR.
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object.
*events* is a bitmask of events ready on this file object.
+ .. note::
+ This method can return before any file object becomes ready or the
+ timeout has elapsed if the current process receives a signal: in this
+ case, an empty list will be returned.
+
.. method:: close()
Close the selector.