Help with select

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Mon Mar 21 22:31:57 AEST 1988


In article <2958 at gryphon.CTS.COM> sarima at gryphon.CTS.COM (Stan Friesen) writes:
>SIGH, select() may well be the BSD feature that I miss the most
>on System V UNIX. Does Sys 5 release 3 have it or its equivalent?

Yes, it's called poll() and it only works on STREAMS.  AT&T is however
converting the whole character I/O system over to STREAMS and may have
already done so by now.

There is also a SIGPOLL signal available.



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