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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Programmable idling...
Message-ID: <11575@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 Nov 89 06:42:50 GMT
References: <89312.165038SML108@PSUVM.BITNET>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <89312.165038SML108@PSUVM.BITNET> SML108@PSUVM.BITNET writes:
>Is there a way under System V unix to make a program idle until an interrupt
>condition is generated?

The simplest thing is to block on a read() system call.  Usually there
is a natural place to do this..