Drop claim about nasty problem.
It's unclear what this was referring to; most likely, it was about sockets
that the application had already closed, in which case it's not a sockets
problem, but an application problem.
diff --git a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst
index 0591e94..324ea0a 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/sockets.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/sockets.rst
@@ -371,12 +371,6 @@
potential_writers list. If it shows up in the writable list, you have a decent
chance that it has connected.
-One very nasty problem with ``select``: if somewhere in those input lists of
-sockets is one which has died a nasty death, the ``select`` will fail. You then
-need to loop through every single damn socket in all those lists and do a
-``select([sock],[],[],0)`` until you find the bad one. That timeout of 0 means
-it won't take long, but it's ugly.
-
Actually, ``select`` can be handy even with blocking sockets. It's one way of
determining whether you will block - the socket returns as readable when there's
something in the buffers. However, this still doesn't help with the problem of