der Mouse  <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> writes:

> > So, there is always a read in progress, but you do not have to
> > continuously issue reads when there is no data and when there is data
> > you get interrupted (by the select) so you don't have to wait for a
> > polling interval to expire.
> 
> select??  This is the kernel we're talking about here; userland would
> just see it as another network interface.

I meant select as in the scsi bus "selection" phase, not the unix
system call.

Ian