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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:11:10 +0200
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Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> "select" probably has its uses, but it seems to mostly be a
> holdover from the pre-thread era.

select() (and poll()) are close to necessary if you want to establish
two-way communication with a child process.  Of course, you could
create a bunch of tasks for that, but this seems to be pure overkill.

OTOH, I havent seen a proper thick binding for select() and poll()
(using protected objects, so that you can use Ada select to wait for
events). With a thin binding, SUSv2 select() and Ada select do not mix
at all.