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Re: Selectable Generic SCSI device

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Youngdale)
Thu Aug 17 19:57:04 1995

From: "Eric Youngdale" <eric@aib.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 11:07:39 -0400
In-Reply-To: rnichols@interaccess.com (Robert Nichols)
        "Re: Selectable Generic SCSI device" (Aug 16,  4:53pm)
To: rnichols@interaccess.com (Robert Nichols), brit@metronet.com,
        linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu


>I believe that in Linux select() is implemented only for sockets.  I
>ran into a similar problem trying to overlap processing with reads
>from SCSI tape.  I ended up using two processes for that.

	Nonetheless, it should not be too hard to implement select for
tapes and scsi_generics.

-Eric

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