[ESS] select error: Resource temporarily unavailable

[Stephen Eglen]

 > Just in the past day I've started getting the below output into my
 > "messages" buffer. They are moderately annoying as they cause the laptops
 > alarm bell to go off. The messages have been generated when I was running R
 > from within Emacs and also rsync from within a shell buffer. What is going
 > on? If nothing else, how can I disable the alarm bell?
 > 
 > 
 > Type C-h m for help on ESS version 5.3.7
 > select error: Resource temporarily unavailable
 > select error: Resource temporarily unavailable

Hmmm... not sure. The error is being generated within the Emacs code,
in emacs/src/process.c:

	    error ("select error: %s", emacs_strerror (xerrno));

I've never seen it running emacs, and I can't see much via google.

to turn off the alarm bell, do:
(setq visible-bell t)

Stephen