From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-03-17T11:34:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading from a string

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 09:03:19AM +0900, Thomas Sondergaard wrote:
> > readline, gets and such, on a class-specific implementation of
> > something as small as a getc.
> Why? I would suggest that the implementation relies on read(byteCount).
> You can mantain a buffer (e.g. with gets if you can't pass all of it on
> to the caller).

Reading in chunks?  Actually sounds viable.

> Yep. getc would be too inefficient, but it is not necessary.

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Massimiliano