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From: carroll@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is select() included in SVR3 ?
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Date: 25 Mar 90 01:38:53 GMT
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/* Written  7:41 am  Mar 23, 1990 by aras@dr.uucp in m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.unix.questions */
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Is BSD 4.3 select() function included in SVR3 ?

I notice that some systems, like Motorola Delta systems, running
System V Release 3 includes this function, but our Altos system, also
running SVR3 doesn't !
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select() is not part of SysVR3. Some particular implementations have it. As
mentioned in another response, 386/ix 2.0.2 has it in the TCP/IP package.
SysVR3 does however have poll(), which performs roughly the same function
on streams. Unfortunately, it doesn't work on pipes, which is more than a bit
of a bummer.

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