Wanted: event control for UNIX
Geoff Kuenning
geoff at desint.UUCP
Tue Dec 25 10:24:14 AEST 1984
In article <144 at chemabs> bobr at chemabs (bobr) writes:
>We are looking for a feature in UNIX which will give event control.
>This feature 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.
Sounds like the System V semaphores are just the ticket. See semop(2),
semget(2), and semctl(2). Or am I missing something?
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Geoff Kuenning
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