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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Wanted: event control for UNIX
Message-ID: <2096@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Dec-84 21:19:49 EST
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2096
Posted: Sun Dec 23 21:19:49 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Dec-84 02:47:16 EST
References: <144@chemabs>
Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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> We are looking for a feature in UNIX which ... will allow a program to
> sleep on multiple queues, and to wake up when any one of the queues has
> something put into it.  The queues could be TTY I/O, disk I/O or IPC.
> We are currently using System V.

You could always get 4.2BSD.  It already has such a mechanism:  the
select() system call.
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