Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!chris 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 Lines: 13 > 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. -- (This line accidently left nonblank.) In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (301) 454-7690 UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@maryland