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From: sarima@gryphon.CTS.COM (Stan Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Help with select
Message-ID: <3025@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 88 00:11:47 GMT
References: <12404@brl-adm.ARPA> <2958@gryphon.CTS.COM> <7513@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: sarima@gryphon.CTS.COM (Stan Friesen)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <7513@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>
>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.

	Good, its about time. But... are PIPEs being converted to STREAMS?
If not, then poll() is not fully equivalent to select().