Programmable idling...

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Thu Nov 9 17:42:50 AEST 1989


In article <89312.165038SML108 at PSUVM.BITNET> SML108 at PSUVM.BITNET writes:
>Is there a way under System V unix to make a program idle until an interrupt
>condition is generated?

The simplest thing is to block on a read() system call.  Usually there
is a natural place to do this..



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