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> blocking reads are the standard way to do this, yes. either
> that or select. select gives you the ability to timeout as well,
> which i think can't be done with read. though in this case
> there probably is no advantage to this.
Using select() has a big advantage: multiplexing. You can block on several
file descriptors simultaneously.
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