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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
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Date: 13 Dec 87 04:55:18 GMT
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>Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
>Organization: Up against the wall of SCIENCE

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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