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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: I need a SysV select()
Message-ID: <7904@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 17 May 88 07:28:19 GMT
References: <9738@sol.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <9738@sol.ARPA> jpayne@cs.rochester.edu (Jonathan Payne) writes:
>I want to get input
>from either the keyboard or from some other file description.  I don't
>want to sit around polling the two, because that would be ridiculous.

If you set MIN and TIME to 0 in the terminal handler, then an attempt
to read from the terminal with no data available will return immediately.
There is nothing analogous for ordinary files.