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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Read timeouts in threads
Message-ID: <1329@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 17 Feb 91 21:53:23 GMT
References: <16593@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
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In article <16593@milton.u.washington.edu>
>                                                          This would
>be fairly easy in 'normal unix' using a timer and signals, or using
>select, but this is in a thread in Mach.

Please explain why select() is unsuitable.

					-=EPS=-