From: Seth Kurtzberg <seth@...>
Date: 2003-03-03T02:38:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Unable to do non-blocking read on socket

I've coded a workaround for this.  It is a bit of a hack but appears to work.  
I will post it later today.

On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:31 am, Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:
> 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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