June 19, 2009
11:29 a.m.
Greg Ewing wrote:
That's exactly why I think the blocking version should keep reading until the requested number of bytes is available (or the buffer is full or EOF occurs). Do you mean that the blocking version should keep waiting for new bytes until they show up? This would not be acceptable, since the program would hang forever most of the time (no changes to the buffer would ever occur in this situation when there's only the main thread running).
Am I understanding this correctly: * The blocking version would not do any raw reads. * The non-blocking version would do.