On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:15:21 -0400, Jordan Mendelson <jordy@wserv.com>
said:
> Hopefully these will be integrated into the stable tree soon since
> without it, SIGIO doesn't do much for you.
Even without it, it's good enough for a lot of applications. Consider a
web server: you keep pushing data out with non-blocking writes() on
getting the siginfo for a fd, and if there is a connection error, you
get the status back from the write() syscall.
--Stephen
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