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- From: rstevens@noao.edu (W. Richard Stevens)
- Subject: Re: Implementation of Sys V. based message queues
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.232807.18181@noao.edu>
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- Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:28:07 GMT
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- >> I would like to be able to use select(2) to multiplex descriptor based
- >> objects (sockets) as well as the message queue.
- >
- > I could be mistaken, but my experience with using Sys V IPC with select()
- > is: 'aint no way...
-
- Believe it or not, I just found out that AIX on the RS/6000 actually
- provides a function named select() with a different interface that
- actually lets you multiplex both descriptors and message queues.
- When I saw their interface I almost barfed.
-
- Rich Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu)
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