Wanted: event control for UNIX

[Chris Torek]

> We are looking for a feature in UNIX which ... will allow a program to
> sleep on multiple queues, and to wake up when any one of the queues has
> something put into it.  The queues could be TTY I/O, disk I/O or IPC.
> We are currently using System V.

You could always get 4.2BSD.  It already has such a mechanism:  the
select() system call.
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