I need a SysV select()
Eduardo Krell
ekrell at hector.UUCP
Tue May 17 11:23:13 AEST 1988
In article <9738 at sol.ARPA> jpayne at rochester.UUCP writes:
>Hi. The simple version of my question is, is there an equivalent
>function in SysV for BSD's select()?
The simple version of my answer is NO.
>If the answer is no, here's what I am trying to do. I want to get input
>from either the keyboard or from some other file description.
System V Release 3 and up have a poll() system call which acts like
select(), but works only on stream file descriptors. Currently, the
tty driver is not streams-based (it will be in the future), so poll()
won't help you either.
Eduardo Krell AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
UUCP: {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ulysses!ekrell ARPA: ekrell at ulysses.att.com
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