Programmable idling...

[Andrew Hume]

In article <11575 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> 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..



the pause(2) system call was designed for this.
i am not positive system v still has this system call
but i would think so.