Re: Desperately missing a working "pselect()" or similar...

Christopher Friesen
2001-10-05T16:36:24Z

lkv@isg.de wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently looking for a decent method to wait on either
> an I/O event _or_ a signal coming from another process.

> - Unix domain sockets would be awkward to use due to the fact
> I'd need to come up with some "filenames" for them to bind to,
> and both security considerations and the danger of "leaking"
> files that remain on disk forever make me shudder...

If you use a named socket in the abstract namespace, then it can't "leak" to
disk....

Chris

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