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[Scsh-hackers] Re: select & buffering

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Subject: [Scsh-hackers] Re: select & buffering
From: Martin Gasbichler <gasbichl@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Date: 13 Mar 2001 16:15:55 +0100
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>>>>> "Olin" == shivers  <shivers@cc.gatech.edu> writes:

Olin> Yeah, that'll work!

Hmm, now it does this on my text:

>> I shrink back from hacking the base S48 system as this complicates the
>> port to new versions. Doing something like write-possible? is also
>> much more difficult as char-ready?: for char-ready? one can request the
>> system to fill the port buffer (try to do a read) but this is
>> obviously not possible for writing as there is no data to write.

Olin> We have to be able to have unbuffered ports. We have to be able to to
Olin> I/O availability anyway. You know this can be done, since Unix 
fundamentally
Olin> makes it possible.

Currently, input ports have a minimum buffer size of 1. I'll talk with
Richard about that.


-- 
Martin


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