On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:19:15PM -0700, Monear Jalal wrote: > Its a System V queue. Hoe would i go about converting > a System V queue to look like a socket. I would like > to stick with select() and make a the queue somehow > look like a file descriptor. No, I meant use socket the way you use queue. It is however only possible if you don't make extensive use of the msgtype feature. > You are rigth i could service the queue under a > thread, however it would be elegant to have select do > this. I fear select can't do this. The SysV ipc is unfortunately too much broken interface. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/