select() question (winsock2).

Hello everyone!
In all tutorials I've read this far select is mainly used with non-blocking sockets. What I'm curious about is if there is something wrong about using select with blocking sockets like this:

Code:

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timeval timer = {5, 0}; //wait five sec

fd_set my_set;
FD_ZERO(&my_set);

SOCKET server = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
bind(server,..blah..blah..);
listen(server, 5);

FD_SET(server, &my_set);

if (select(0, &my_set, NULL, NULL, &timer) == 1)
{
    SOCKET client = accept(server, ...blah....blah...);
}
else
{
    cout << "No connection within timelimit.";
}

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This way I can await connections within a timelimit but still use blocking sockets and that's what I want to do, so is there anything bad about using select this way?

I don't see any problem with this.

The blocking (or lack of) should only become a factor when you're actually reading and writing bytes of data.
select() just monitors the state.

Okey thank you very much for answering! I can't imagine there's a better forum on the net :D
Hopefully I'll be able to help people soon enough (as my knowledge grows) and not just ask questions without giving much in return.

Thanks again!