Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!ius2.cs.cmu.edu!edw From: edw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Eddie Wyatt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Help! I need an interrupt!! Message-ID: <1139@ius2.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 2-May-87 12:42:54 EDT Article-I.D.: ius2.1139 Posted: Sat May 2 12:42:54 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 5-May-87 01:44:34 EDT References: <565@aramis.RUTGERS.EDU> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 7 Xref: mnetor comp.unix.wizards:2138 comp.unix.questions:2132 Oh, another technique would be to fork a process just to take care of stdin (and stdout). Once one of the special characters comes in, just have the process signal (using kill) that an interrupt has occurred. -- Eddie Wyatt