Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Help with select
Message-ID: <7513@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 21 Mar 88 12:31:57 GMT
References: <12404@brl-adm.ARPA> <2958@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2958@gryphon.CTS.COM> sarima@gryphon.CTS.COM (Stan Friesen) writes:
>SIGH, select() may well be the BSD feature that I miss the most
>on System V UNIX. Does Sys 5 release 3 have it or its equivalent?

Yes, it's called poll() and it only works on STREAMS.  AT&T is however
converting the whole character I/O system over to STREAMS and may have
already done so by now.

There is also a SIGPOLL signal available.