On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:40:53 -0600, Kirk Wolf wrote: >Right. A properly written select() loop is the answer, and you don't even >need an ancillary process. > Are you saying the shell command runs in the same process space as select()? Separate threads, perhaps?
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