Re: Stdio and DragonFly changes

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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:Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 04:15:32PM +0000, Oliver Fromme wrote:
: > > In my opinion, an application which wants to know the size
: > > of stdio's buffer is badly designed.
: > 
: > The application doesn't want to know the actual size of the buffer, it
: > just wants to know whether any data is inside. This is useful e.g. when
: > dealing with network traffics to avoid hangs :-)
:
:Hm.  Should't non-blocking I/O be useful in that case?
:
:Best regards
:   Oliver
:
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    Most stdio implementatons can't handle non-blocking I/O.  I
    don't know if ours can or not.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>