Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Summary: Is there a select()-like call for message queues? Message-ID: <11950@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 14 Jan 90 17:30:48 GMT References: <1826@xyzzy.UUCP> <11925@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 14 In article peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: -Perhaps you would like to abolish select(), poll(), VMIN, VTIME, and other -such "warts". Actually, I'd love to do that... but only to replace them -with one of those simple, clean, uniform, device independent concepts that -UNIX is famous for. That would be fine, and there are a handful of people working on such an approach. Unfortunately there are many more working on adding warts. -Let's add 4 new system calls: aread, awrite, await, and status. -This doesn't break any existing programs, nor does it do any injury to -the design goals of UNIX. Yes, it does! Go back and read what I said in my previous message.