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john slee wrote:

> 
> not so long ago dan kegel suggested an interface to signals based on
> file descriptors, and perhaps even an alpha patch implementing such.
> this allowed you to select() on them.
> 


That's still not a good reason to use signals for this particular interface.

	-hpa


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