Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!matt@oddjob.uchicago.EDU 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: <10803@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: 12 Dec 87 15:46:51 GMT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 10 >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(). ________________________________________________________ Matt University matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu Crawford of Chicago {astrovax,ihnp4}!oddjob!matt