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
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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?
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