Deprecate osproc.select(). Refs #90.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/pure/osproc.nim b/lib/pure/osproc.nim
index 82a0c0c65..c94a65a63 100644
--- a/lib/pure/osproc.nim
+++ b/lib/pure/osproc.nim
@@ -335,7 +335,8 @@ proc execProcesses*(cmds: openArray[string],
       if afterRunEvent != nil: afterRunEvent(i, p)
       close(p)
 
-proc select*(readfds: var seq[Process], timeout = 500): int {.benign.}
+proc select*(readfds: var seq[Process], timeout = 500): int
+  {.benign, deprecated.}
   ## `select` with a sensible Nim interface. `timeout` is in milliseconds.
   ## Specify -1 for no timeout. Returns the number of processes that are
   ## ready to read from. The processes that are ready to be read from are
@@ -343,6 +344,9 @@ proc select*(readfds: var seq[Process], timeout = 500): int {.benign.}
   ##
   ## **Warning**: This function may give unexpected or completely wrong
   ## results on Windows.
+  ##
+  ## **Deprecated since version 0.17.0**: This procedure isn't cross-platform
+  ## and so should not be used in newly written code.
 
 when not defined(useNimRtl):
   proc execProcess(command: string,