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Re: Ideas for 5.10

From:
Nick Ing-Simmons
Date:
August 14, 2002 10:03
Subject:
Re: Ideas for 5.10
Message ID:
20020814170258.1636.11@bactrian.ni-s.u-net.com
Arthur Bergman <arthur@contiller.se> writes:
>On onsdag, augusti 14, 2002, at 01:11 , Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
>
>>
>> Perhaps this would be a good time for someone to do some real
>> research, rather than continuing to spread FUD.  Does someone have the
>> Stevens book or the POSIX standard?  If not I will try to obtain one
>> or the other.
>>
>
>I have both, what do you want to know?

If select() indicates that fd is readable can

  read(fd,buffer,8192);   // i.e. some large number of bytes

ever block?




>
>Arthur
-- 
Nick Ing-Simmons
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