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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: New? idea
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Date: Mon, 16-Jan-84 16:27:56 EST
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As for "select" working for "wait", I presume the intent was that when
"wait" was implemented as a "read" on a descriptor for the child process,
one could do "select"s to see if a child was dead.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy