From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 20:42:56 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] History of select(2) In-Reply-To: References: <20170109023502.GA8507@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <20170109104256.GA27166@minnie.tuhs.org> > On 9 Jan 2017, at 3:35 , Warren Toomey wrote: > > Also, I came across this history of select(2) a while back: > > https://idea.popcount.org/2016-11-01-a-brief-history-of-select2/ On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 11:36:20AM +0100, Paul Ruizendaal wrote: > That is an interesting blog post, but I think it is a bit short on the > history of things before 4.2BSD. Below my current understanding of what > came before select(). Wow, that's an excellent writeup of the early history of select(2). Thanks Paul! Warren