> In message <m3pt94bh3p.fsf@gossamer.airs.com>, you write: 
> 
> -> "Charles M. Hannum" <abuse@spamalicious.com> writes:
> -> 
> -> > How is the application ever supposed to know that the connect() has 
> -> > completed?  
> -> 
> -> select()?
> 
> and/or getsockopt with SOL_SOCKET/SO_ERROR...
> 
``what they said''.  The connection shall be established asynchronously
(as if O_NONBLOCK is set) if the syscall gets interrupted.

-- Ragge