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 Subject: Re: [mercury-users] Newbie questions
From: Tyson Dowd (trd@cs.mu.OZ.AU)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2000 - 13:44:50 EST

On 10-Dec-2000, John Eikenberry <jae@zhar.net> wrote:
>
> I've just started teaching myself Mercury. As a first fun teaching project
> I'd like to write a robot for RealTimeBattles, a robot battle sim game. To
> do this I need to figure out how to either handle Unix signals or the libc
> select function (I'm doing this in linux). After hunting around the docs
> and the email archives, I'm still not sure how either of these would work
> in Mercury.
>
> Based on some of the discussions in the email archive, it seems like the
> select function isn't supported yet. It did seem like there is support for
> signals though, based on some conversations and m-dev postings from '98.
>
> I'd really appreciate a pointer to some docs/examples on either of these
> (preferably both).

There's an implementation of a POSIX library in the mercury-extras
libraries.

extras/posix/posix.select.m

Has code for doing select.

(I haven't used this code myself, so I'm not sure whether it has suffered
any bit-rot since it was written). 

-- 
       Tyson Dowd           # 
                            #  Surreal humour isn't everyone's cup of fur.
     trd@cs.mu.oz.au        # 
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~trd #
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