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From: stpeters@steinmetz.UUCP (R L StPeters)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Re: Bizarre Code
Message-ID: <256@steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 19:45:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 29 19:45:51 1985
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Organization: GE CRD, Schenectady, NY
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> 
>   100 IF (IREQ.EQ.0) GO TO 100
> 
> and was the accepted method, on a long-defunct system, of testing
> completion on an asynchronous I/O request.

An old bug in the low-level VMS I/O calls (qio's) used to require a
similar hack, and a lot of C code around here still has the line
	while (!iosb[1]);
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