Emanuel Berg <embe8...@student.uu.se> writes:

> I have written a program [1] in C++ that uses polling,
> but I was told that wasn't good enough so now I search
> for a "preemptive" or interrupt-based solution.

To block on accesses to a file until it actually has data for you try
reading up on the `select` call:

     % man 2 select

-- 
Devrin Talen <dc...@cornell.edu>


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