30 Sep
2002
30 Sep
'02
10:33 a.m.
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Satya wrote:
It's good when you're doing a non-blocking read (using select).
Whta's good? fgets()?
if you're using select, you generally use something that will read as how much you tell it to read, but will settle for less. fgets might block if it reads all available data and doesn't see the newline or exceed size.
I'm doing a select()ed read elsewhere. The select call is doing double-duty: waiting for a packet and waiting for a timeout.
yeah, I do something similar in my sample yahoo messenger client. I use select to read from stdin, a socket, and to send a keepalive packet every 20 minutes - at most.
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