Re: [ILUG-BOM] Buggy C prog

On Sep 27, 2002 at 11:37, Philip S Tellis wrote:

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Satya wrote:

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Bah, I should've used fgets() for my parser, instead of reading a character at a time and examining it. Bah. Philip, is my method so horrendous that I should replace it with fgets(), assuming it's not

reading a character at a time is fine if you don't care about bufferring. However, you'll have to take care of backspace yourself.

It's reading from a disk file, so no worries about backspace and such.

It's good when you're doing a non-blocking read (using select).

Whta's good? fgets()?

I'm doing a select()ed read elsewhere. The select call is doing double-duty: waiting for a packet and waiting for a timeout.