Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!pt!ius2.cs.cmu.edu!edw From: edw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Eddie Wyatt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: No more signals Message-ID: <1214@ius2.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 09:38:04 EDT Article-I.D.: ius2.1214 Posted: Wed Jun 24 09:38:04 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Jul-87 19:41:38 EDT References: <48300005@hcx1> <1207@ius2.cs.cmu.edu> <7188@mimsy.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 36 In article <7188@mimsy.UUCP>, chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: > Funny you should mention that. . . . > > If you muck around with the 4.2BSD kernel, you are wasting your > time; the 4.3BSD kernel is considerably cleaner. The only big > uglies left to fix are the VM system and the file system interface. > In particular, select works on more than 32 file descriptors. > -- > In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690) > Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: seismo!mimsy!chris Heres the man page declaration of select: Suns 3.2 nfds = select(width, readfds, writefds, exceptfds, timeout) int width, *readfds, *writefds, *exceptfds; struct timeval timeout; Holy shit they changed the man page on me, from our 4.2 with MACH extrensions nfound = select(nfds, readfds, writefds, exceptfds, timeout) int nfound, nfds; fd_set *readfds, *writefds, *exceptfds; struct timeval *timeout; Oh well, I'm happy now :-) -- Eddie Wyatt e-mail: edw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu terrorist, cryptography, DES, drugs, cipher, secret, decode, NSA, CIA, NRO.