Programmable idling...

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.uu.net
Fri Nov 10 05:20:07 AEST 1989


Names deleted to protect the guilty:

> >Is there a way under System V unix to make a program idle until an interrupt
> >condition is generated?

> The simplest thing is to block on a read() system call.  Usually there
> is a natural place to do this..

Um, what's wrong with !pause()!?
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