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- Submitted-by: jason@cnd.hp.com (Jason Zions)
-
- >Can anyone tell me if select() is part of POSIX?
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- Not yet, but it should eventually be.
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- The System Interface Coordinating Committee is composed of the chairs of the
- POSIX working groups whose standards are destined for ISO 9945-1; that is,
- 1003.1, 1003.4, 1003.6, 1003.8, 1003.10, and 1003.12. It also includes the
- chairs of any existing language binding groups working on bindings for
- 9945-1 components; that is, 1003.5 and 1003.9/1003.19.
-
- The 1003.12 working group (Sockets, XTI/TLI) asked SICC to help resolve the
- issue of where select()-like functionality belongs (in terms of working
- group with expertise to develop it), threatening to add it themselves if no
- other group took it on. After some debate, the 1003.1 working group was
- identified as the responsible party.
-
- Some future revision of the 1003.1 standard, whether by amendment or
- revision, will include something like select(). I do not know the current
- status of the work; the newly-confirmed chair of 1003.1, Paul Wanish, should
- be asked that question. (If I remember, I'll ask him myself at the next SICC
- meeting in April.)
-
- Oh, yeah; besides chairing 1003.8, I also chair the SICC, serve on the PMC,
- and am vice-chair (acting chair) of the DSSC (Distributed Services Steering
- Committee). I don't sleep much during POSIX meetings.
-
- Jason
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- Volume-Number: Volume 30, Number 46
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