Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!orca!tekecs!frip!andrew From: andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Wait, Select, SIGCHLD ... SIGIO won't do Message-ID: <9518@tekecs.TEK.COM> Date: 14 Dec 87 21:24:32 GMT References: <10793@brl-adm.ARPA> Sender: nobody@tekecs.TEK.COM Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon Lines: 14 [] "Suppose you set all your fd's of interest to be asynchronous and you handle the SIGIO instead of doing select? Then it's signal vs. signals instead of signals vs. select. A blocking select would translate into a sigpause()." From the fcntl(2) man page (4.2BSD vintage): "The asynchronous I/O facilities of FNDELAY and FASYNC are currently available only for tty operations." -=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP] (andrew%tekecs.tek.com@relay.cs.net) [ARPA]