Re: [Apt-proxy-users] NetServer::Generic

[Chris H. <chr...@ni...>]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 07:03:56PM -0500, Jason Boxman wrote:
> I noticed this in the docs, and I don't know how difficult it would be to 
> solve it:
> 
> "Bug the first:
> 
> NetServer::Generic attempts to make it easy to write a
> server by letting the programmer concentrate on reading
> from STDIN and writing to STDOUT.  However, this form of
> i/o is line oriented.  NetServer::Generic relies on the
> buffering and i/o capabilities provided by Perl and
> IO::Socket respectively. It doesn't buffer its own input."
> 
> The examples show something like:
> 
> while (defined ($tmp = <STDIN>)) { }
> 
> Couldn't you do a sysread() instead so that you could pull in blocks of input 
> from the client (apt-get) and the server (debian mirror) where STDIN will 
> play a role?

I'm no expert, but looking at the manpage for sysread I can't see how you
can say 'pull in this amount of input until a newline or you read a maximum
length' with sysread.  Is it possible to specify nonblocking behaviour, so
that it would return immediately even if the client hadn't sent LENGTH
bytes?

Chris