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From: bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: get character without waiting
Summary: With a visit from Mr. Trebek!
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Date: 14 Jun 91 01:36:22 GMT
References: <1991Jun12.001056.24021@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <4669@inews.intel.com> <1991Jun12.085022.73@%boot.decnet@edwards-tems.af.mil>
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In article <1991Jun12.085022.73@%boot.decnet@edwards-tems.af.mil> elston%boot.decnet@edwards-tems.af.mil (Mark Elston, NSI Inc., Edwards AFB CA) writes:
>In article <4669@inews.intel.com>, bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>> Y'know, I've often wondered what it was that possessed the
>> forgers of unix to name that damn function "select(2)" instead
>> of "checkiobuffersforremainingcharacters(2)".
>
>That's great for all of you with "select(2)" in your libraries.

I wasn't worried about how; I really do want to know
why it's called "select".

And the answer is, "RTFFAQ."

				--Blair
				  "What is poll(2) or rdchk(2), Alex?"