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From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Programmable idling...
Summary: whatever happened to pause?
Message-ID: <10118@alice.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 89 12:50:26 GMT
References: <89312.165038SML108@PSUVM.BITNET> <11575@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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In article <11575@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> 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..



the pause(2) system call was designed for this.
i am not positive system v still has this system call
but i would think so.