"usleep" routine in HP's

Chris Torek chris at mimsy.UUCP
Sun May 7 18:55:53 AEST 1989


In article <11166 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> adtaiwo at athena.mit.edu
(Ademola Taiwo) writes:
>Okay guys, How does one implement select, sigrelse, sigpause and
>sighold with signals.

If you have neither a 4.1-style `jobs library' nor 4.2-style signals,
you cannot implement sighold, sigpause, and sigrelse reliably.

You cannot reliably implement select with anything other than poll().
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