Subj : Re: Linux pthreads, C-program, how to timeout a thread?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Chris Friesen
Date : Mon May 02 2005 05:20 pm

fj40rockcrawler@gmail.com wrote:

> The program talks to a serial port with standard Linux read/write
> function calls.  However, those are blocking calls, like the read, it
> will block until there is something to read.

Any particular reason you don't want to use a single-threaded app using 
select and non-blocking read/write?

Chris

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