Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 05 Oct 2001 12:36:58 -0400 | From | "Christopher Friesen" <> | Subject | Re: Desperately missing a working "pselect()" or similar... |
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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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