poll – System Interfaces Reference, The Single UNIX Specification, Version 5 from The Open Group man-pages for poll(2) in FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly...
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dehorning Poll (band), a Greek pop group of the 1970s Poll, the German title for the 2010 film The Poll Diaries poll (Unix), a Unix system call POLL, DNA polymerase...
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UUCP (redirect from Unix to Unix Copy Protocol)
UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy) is a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between...
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Vi (text editor) (redirect from Vi (Unix))
/ˌviːˈaɪ/ ) is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of the behavior of vi and programs...
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STREAMS (redirect from UNIX System V STREAMS)
Network Support Utilities (NSU) package of UNIX System V Release 3. This port added the putmsg, getmsg, and poll system calls, which are nearly equivalent...
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File descriptor (category Unix file system technology)
In Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems, a file descriptor (FD, less frequently fildes) is a process-unique identifier (handle) for a file or...
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similar to the poll facility introduced in UNIX System V and later operating systems. However, with the c10k problem, both select and poll have been superseded...
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Everything is a file (category Unix file system technology)
an approach to interface design in Unix derivatives. While this turn of phrase does not as such figure as a Unix design principle or philosophy, it is...
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Signal (IPC) (redirect from Sigprocmask (Unix))
limited form of inter-process communication (IPC), typically used in Unix, Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. A signal is an asynchronous...
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tail is a program available on Unix, Unix-like systems, FreeDOS and MSX-DOS used to display the tail end of a text file or piped data. The version of tail...
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Asynchronous I/O (section Select(/poll) loops)
occurred), kqueue in FreeBSD, and event ports (and /dev/poll) in Solaris. SVR3 Unix provided the poll system call. Arguably better-named than select, for...
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Polling (computer science) (redirect from Poll message)
most often used in terms of input/output (I/O), and is also referred to as polled I/O or software-driven I/O. A good example of hardware implementation is...
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End-of-Transmission character (section Meaning in Unix)
terminals in a standby condition. Its most common use today is to cause a Unix terminal driver to signal end of file and thus exit programs that are awaiting...
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application programming interface (API) for Internet domain sockets and Unix domain sockets, used for inter-process communication (IPC). It is commonly...
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than Unix shells, with steps taking multiple input streams and producing multiple output streams. (Such functionality is supported by the Unix kernel...
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control. Instead, it uses the existing X11 display shown on the monitor of a Unix-like computer in real time, unlike other Linux alternatives such as TightVNC...
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event provider follows the file interface, which can be selected or 'polled' (the Unix system call, not actual polling). The event loop almost always operates...
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known for owning Unix operating system assets that had belonged to the Santa Cruz Operation (the original SCO), including the UnixWare and OpenServer...
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Santa Cruz Operation (category Unix history)
selling three Unix operating system variants for Intel x86 processors: Xenix, SCO UNIX (later known as SCO OpenDesktop and SCO OpenServer), and UnixWare. SCO...
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(1981) and Concurrent CP/M-86 did support preemptive multitasking. Other Unix-like systems including MINIX and Coherent provided preemptive multitasking...
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(January 26, 2025). ""Wybory" prezydenckie na Białorusi. Są wyniki exit poll" (in Polish). Interia. Retrieved January 27, 2025. "Global tech shares fall...
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real-time text, where characters appeared as they were typed. This includes the Unix "talk" command line program, which was popular in the 1980s and early 1990s...
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Sleep (system call) (section Unix)
loop over QueryPerformanceCounter(), such as the one used in gnulib. On Unix-like and other POSIX operating systems, the sleep() function is called providing...
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domesticated Chinese duck lost on the Yangtze River. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers'...
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Stratus VOS (redirect from Unix System Facilities)
project. In 1984, Stratus added a UNIX System V implementation called Unix System Facilities (USF) to VOS, integrating Unix and VOS at the kernel level. In...
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observer. In 1990, Torvalds resumed his university studies, and was exposed to Unix for the first time in the form of a DEC MicroVAX running ULTRIX. Later, he...
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Lighttpd (category Unix network-related software)
open-source software and is distributed under the BSD license. It runs natively on Unix-like operating systems, with experimental support for Microsoft Windows....
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DNIX (category UNIX System V)
DNIX (original spelling: D-Nix) is a discontinued Unix-like real-time operating system from the Swedish company Dataindustrier AB (DIAB). A version named...
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lacking NTP's data analysis and clock disciplining algorithms, include the Unix daemon timed, which uses an election algorithm to appoint a server for all...
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company, Musk returned as CEO. Musk's preference for Microsoft software over Unix created a rift in the company and caused Thiel to resign. Due to resulting...
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