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From: matt@oddjob.uchicago.EDU (Keeper of the Sacred Tablets)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Wait, Select, and a SIGCHLD Race Condition
Message-ID: <10789@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 11 Dec 87 17:01:30 GMT
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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().
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