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Cool new Free software

Posted Dec 19, 2012 19:42 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Cool new Free software by man_ls
Parent article: Status.net service to phase out, replaced by pump.io

Yeah. That's exactly what select(), poll(), and other blocking syscalls do now, and have done since Unix was invented (well, OK, they weren't around then, but read() was, and it did just the same).


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Cool new Free software

Posted Dec 19, 2012 19:47 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Way to go then :) Thanks for your patience.

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