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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Programmable idling...
Message-ID: <11586@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 10 Nov 89 19:45:36 GMT
References: <89312.165038SML108@PSUVM.BITNET> <11575@smoke.BRL.MIL> <6899@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <6899@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Um, what's wrong with !pause()!?

Nothing, but often read() or accept() would be better since if it
does return (non-EINTR) the daemon can proceed to do useful work
without needing to be prodded by an interrupt.