From: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>
Date: 2004-07-29T09:06:47+09:00
Subject: Re: IO::Reactor on a disk file?

Never mind ... I figured out the answer to my question.  See below:


Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> [ ... ]
>
> Is there something I can do to make the `select' call block at end
> of file until new data appears, or is the behavior I'm seeing intrinsic
> to `select' on a Unix system?  I'm using FreeBSD, if that makes any
> difference.

The `select' manpage on my FreeBSD system says nothing about EOF, but I
looked at a Linux manpage for that function, and it states that `select'
will consider a file descriptor to be `ready' for reading even if it's
in the EOF state.  That explains the behavior I'm seeing.

Sorry for the bandwidth.



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