Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] IO.really_nread

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

> Fair enough. :)
> 
> But then IO.nread is subject to a similar problem: It will
> busy-wait on a non-blocking input until more input becomes
> available instead of returning the string read so far.
> 
> I fixed that and added two more really_... functions which
> do exactly the same as their regular counterparts except
> that they raise an exception if unable to read/write the
> requested amount.
> 
> I've attached the patch I intend to apply to add the
> functions
> 
> really_nread
> really_input
> really_output
> 
> and to fix IO.nread when used on non-blocking IO.
> 
> Any objections? (Obviously, I'll add declarations and
> documentation to IO.mli if accepted.)

Looks ok for me.

Nicolas