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From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Using select on FIFO's
Message-ID: <1991May30.112807.22841@prl.dec.com>
Date: 30 May 91 11:28:07 GMT
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Don't you just want to open the named pipe in non-blocking mode and then
use fcntl(2) to turn off the non-blocking so that read and select work
the way you want them to?


Boyd Roberts			boyd@prl.dec.com

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