From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2004-07-24T12:44:34+09:00
Subject: Re: sysread and buffered I/O

In article <874qnyevv4.fsf@dessyku.is-a-geek.org>,
  "Yohanes Santoso" <ysantoso-rubytalk@dessyku.is-a-geek.org> writes:

> The behaviour described above is similar to the behaviour of posix's
> read function. posix's read function does a short read[1] if there is
> not enough data available to satisfy the request, but perform a full
> read if there is enough data. it will also block until there is some
> data to be read.

It is not wonder.  readpartial is a stdio friendly sysread.  sysread
calls posix's read function.

I'm not sure that the name represent "stdio friendly" property well.
-- 
Tanaka Akira