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From: Steve Graegert <graegerts@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Socket and STDIN pooling
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 07:36:07 +0100
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On 2/14/06, Lejanson C. Go <lejanson@ntsp.nec.co.jp> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question about pooling 2 sockets and stdin.

I suppose you mean "polling".

> I am currently making an application which accepts
> input from the stdin.
>
> It had a connection to a server connecting to 2ports.
> If for example the stdin is a blocking descriptor and
> the 2 other descriptors are to be checked real time
> how can it be done without using threads?

See (p)select(2) and poll(2) system calls.  Numerous examples on how
to utilize both functions can be found in the Net.

	\Steve

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