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[Sean Eric Fagan]

In article <7739 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>>SunOS:  usleep()
>Welcome to the club - the club, that is, of folks who think "usleep()"
>is a SunOS-ism.  Dunno how people get into that club; perhaps the first
>UNIX system on which they see "usleep()" is a SunOS system.
>"usleep()" first appeared in 4.3BSD; SunOS picked it up from there.

Ok.  I never got to play with a 4.3BSD system until a couple of years ago,
and, even then, there were quite a few modifications made locally.

>>SysVr3.[01]:  use poll(); this might not be present in your version of
>>	SysVr3.[01]
>What versions of S5R3.[01] deleted "poll()"?

The version of SysVr3.0 for teh 3B15 that CSU Northridge got when I was
there did not have STREAMS, and, therefore, didn't have poll().  (And, yeah,
I checked:  it didn't have poll().)

I don't know if that was a weird release, or if it was standard.  I am
fairly certain that STREAMS were standard for 3.1 and later.

>>4.[23]BSD:  use select() (similar to poll() above, but more portable)
>4.3BSD-and-later: use "usleep()".

Ok.  It is better than select(), or at least more intuitive and obvious what
you have to do 8-).

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