Summary: Is there a select()-like call for message queues?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <G3:5JFxds13 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>... you should be able to post a read() without waiting.

There's something you should understand about UNIX:
A fundamental goal of its design was to convert real-world asynchronity
into apparent synchronity so far as application programs are concerned.
It succeeded at this quite well.
If you want to change the design goals, you'll get better results by
properly designing a new operating system taking the different goals
into account than by trying to graft foreign notions into the existing
structure.
The technical name for such grafts is "warts".