SIGCHLD race condition? (fwd)

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Paul Menage wrote:

> - Switch to using queued signals for network readiness events, then use
> sigtimedwait() or similar instead of select(). I imagine that this would
> be a fairly major overhaul of the networking code.
>

And how does one emulate sigtimedwait() for those older platforms that
lack it?  I don't remember seeing it listed in the NeXTStep manpages.

- Ben