>You're confusing two things: stdout, which is a stdio stream and is
>output-only, and file descriptor 1, which in traditionally used for
>output but in your case is bidirectional.  select() is telling you fd 1
>is readable, but stdout is still an output-only stream.

apparently the original idea had been lost along the way.  if he
selects on stdout and it returns as ready for a read, then the
(tcp/pipe) descriptor has closed and his process knows to die off
quietly...

that's all we're trying to accomplish.  stdout was not bidirectional.

:)

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