poll – System Interfaces Reference, The Single UNIX Specification, Version 4 from The Open Group man-pages for poll(2) in FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly...

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...

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...

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...

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 However, with the c10k problem, both select and poll have been superseded...

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...

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...

/ˌviːˈaɪ/ ) is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of the behavior of vi and programs...

limited form of inter-process communication (IPC), typically used in Unix, Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. A signal is an asynchronous...

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...

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...

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...

than Unix shells, with steps taking multiple input streams and producing multiple output streams. (Such functionality is supported by the Unix kernel...

periodically polls the agent on remote system using the check_nrpe plugin. NRPE allows you to remotely execute Nagios plugins on other Linux/Unix machines...

(1981) and Concurrent CP/M-86 did support preemptive multitasking. Other Unix-like systems including MINIX and Coherent provided preemptive multitasking...

application programming interface (API) for Internet domain sockets and Unix domain sockets, used for inter-process communication (IPC). It is commonly...

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...

loop over QueryPerformanceCounter(), such as the one used in gnulib. On Unix-like and other POSIX operating systems, the sleep() function is called providing...

educational stripped-down version of Unix. In 1990, Torvalds resumed his university studies, and was exposed to Unix for the first time in the form of a...

selling three Unix operating system variants for Intel x86 processors: Xenix, SCO UNIX (later known as SCO OpenDesktop and SCO OpenServer), and UnixWare. SCO...

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...

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...

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...

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'...

known for owning Unix operating system assets that had belonged to the Santa Cruz Operation (the original SCO), including the UnixWare and OpenServer...

open-source software and is distributed under the BSD license. It runs natively on Unix-like operating systems, with experimental support for Microsoft Windows....

system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis...

Distribution Service Database-as-IPC Protected procedure call Stevens, Richard. UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2, Second Edition: Interprocess Communications...

Apcupsd, short for APC UPS daemon, is a utility that runs on Linux, UNIX, macOS and Windows.: 1, 8–9  It allows the computer to interact with APC UPSes...

1967, and in Unix in 1969, and was available in some operating systems for computers as small as DEC's PDP-8; it is a core feature of all Unix-like operating...