Re: [TCLCORE] TIP 287 [chan available] reference implementation

[Andreas K. <and...@ac...>]

> Using the attached scripts (yyy = sender incomplete line, zzz =
> sender complete
> line, xxx = receiver), I find that after each push of an incomplete
> line to the
> socket the receiver calls the event handler only twice and then
> stops. Until the
> next chunk is received. Without the special case it would expect it to execute
> the handler rapidly without stopping, until the line has been completed ...
>
> Interesting. Now I am wondering how this is implemented.

Aha. tclIO.c, Tcl_GetsObj, line 3854 (8.4 head, end of the function).
CHANNEL_NEED_MORE_DATA flag ...

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