Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] High Level IO

[Nicolas C. <war...@fr...>]

> > > > I just commited today on the CVS the IO module already presented a
few
> > > > months ago.
> > >
> > > IO.ml seems broken.  The definition of the "pipe" is incomplete.
> > >
> >
> > That's true...I committed a little fast,
> > I just removed "pipe" from the IO module.
> >
> > Nicolas Cannasse
>
> So, you made all IO non-blocking.  (I mean success of reading operation is
> not guaranteed.)  It would make an operation like reading the whole
> contents of channel into string to be very difficult...
>

They are blocking :

let i = IO.input_channel ch in
let data = (match IO.available ch with
    | None -> failwith "unknown data available"
    | Some n -> IO.nread ch n
) in
IO.close_in i;

Nicolas Cannasse