Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Unix on the Amiga Summary: Oh, fork() off. Message-ID: <1971@sugar.UUCP> Date: 12 May 88 13:17:13 GMT References: <8805092040.AA17873@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 17 This means waugh! In article ... dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: [ Re: fork() ] > Note that my main point is that the calls are not very powerful. OK, buster. What mechanism would you use? Side comment: I finally got a good description of the Berkeley select() call. It's great. It's the conceptual breakthrough needed to do asynchronous I/O in UNIX. The *right* way. Too bad that name "wait" was already taken. What's the structure of a bitset, anyone? -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- "Have you hugged your U wolf today?" ...!bellcore!tness1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These aren't mere opinions, these are *values*.