Re: [clisp cvs] 'clisp/src ChangeLog,1.755,1.756 constsym.d,1.79,1.80 stream.d,1.163,1.164 subr.d,1.53,1.54'

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

>>>> In message <14619.14942.902991.367998@ragged>
>>>> On the subject of "Re: [clisp cvs] 'clisp/src ChangeLog,1.755,1.756 constsym.d,1.79,1.80 stream.d,1.163,1.164 subr.d,1.53,1.54'"
>>>> Sent on Thu May 11 18:12:23 EDT 2000
>>>> Honorable Don Cohen <do...@ni...> writes:
 >>   Sam Steingold
 >> 
 >>   this function NEVER waits for input of output to BECOME available, it
 >>   only waits for INFORMATION on IO AVAILABILITY to become available.
 >> 
 >> This is not what my man page on select seems to say.  But I can't
 >> tell from that page what causes it to return other than the timeout.
 >> Does it return when any of the watched FD's changes?  In which case
 >> if output and input are already available on all of them it must
 >> wait for the timeout?  I'm sorry but the man page seems less than
 >> clear on this too.

it returns when it can answer the question on each stream given, or when
the timeout occurs, whichever comes first.  I am repeating it for the
third time.

Hey, is my English really THAT confusing?

 >>   on text streams, SOCKET-STATUS + WRITE-LINE or READ-LINE should be okay.
 >> 
 >> This is clearly nonsense.  

please try to be polite.

Are you a native English speaker?  You clearly have problems
understanding my writing (English is a second language for me too).

I said "should be okay", which is not the same as "is the right way".
It means that text streams are *usually* written to / read from not
byte-by-byte but line-by-line, so presence of a single character is
indicative of availability of a whole line (banning network problems). 

 >> Other than real multiple processes I see no alternative to
 >> checking before every character or byte read or written (unless
 >> you're willing to block).

true. so?

-- 
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