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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: SYS V Rel 3.2 (3B2) asynchronous reading from two or more inputs
Keywords: asyncronous SYSV 3B2
Message-ID: <5JW1RTAxds13@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 20 Feb 90 22:32:38 GMT
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Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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Alas, System V is missing any way of doing this.

BSD lets you do this, but not very cleanly.

We just got through a discussion on this subject. What's needed is a set
os asynchronous equivalents to read/write that return a token you can wait
on.
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