How would i do this?
I want a program to lay around waiting to receive signals, I dont want it to use any CPU. How would i accomplish this?
How would i do this?
I want a program to lay around waiting to receive signals, I dont want it to use any CPU. How would i accomplish this?
You could put the program to sleep with whatever function your implementation supports (sleep(), delay(), etc.)
If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
What types of signals? getchar() works pretty well for keyboard input.
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Thanks, just what i was looking for!
