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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Programmable idling...
Message-ID: <6899@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 9 Nov 89 18:20:07 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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> >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..

Um, what's wrong with !pause()!?
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