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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Problem with select() call
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.004113.3894@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 1 Oct 90 00:41:13 GMT
References: <markd.654670818@sunchat>
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In article <markd.654670818@sunchat> markd@iti.org (Mark Delany) writes:


>I'm having trouble using select() and I was wondering whether:

>	b) There is a problem with this on Xenix at my rev

This is the one!  2.3.1 Xenix doesn't select() properly on pipes.
You will need the maintenance supplement UFM a.k.a xnx155b which is
available for anon UUCP from sosco.

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