From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-03-03T02:31:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Unable to do non-blocking read on socket

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 02:04:21AM +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: Unable to do non-blocking read on socket"
>     on 03/03/03, Seth Kurtzberg <seth@cql.com> writes:
> 
> |Also, the blocking behavior only occurs when the maximum read size argument is 
> |supplied to the read() call.
> 
> IO#read without maximum size is supposed to read _all_ data from the
> port, so that it should naturally block.

What would be the way to read all the data currently available, without
blocking (waiting for more)?

The only solution I can thing of without using #sysread is using select and
reading only one byte at a time, then repeating until there's nothing
left, but this is so sloow...

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