hGetBuf (or something related) broken for 6.2 with sockets

[Tomasz Zielonka]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:44:58PM +0100, George Russell wrote:
> 
> (b) The server module only gets part of the data.  In fact for me it comes 
> to a stop
> with
> [239][240][241][242][243Iterating
> despite there being more data to come.  (And despite the fact that the 
> client has
> done hFlush).
> 
> I don't know any way of working around (b), so I suspect that means
> ghc6.2 is unusable for us.  What a pity no development snapshot was
> made for 6.2 shortly before its release, as it might have been
> possible for me to discover this bug in time for it to be fixed in
> 6.2.    (I did try to test the 6.3 development snapshot but was
> grounded by the instances bug I've reported elsewhere.)

It seems to work when I change hGetBuf to hGetBufNonBlocking. The name
is a bit misleading - the action _does_ wait for some data, but it doesn't
wait for all requested bytes.

Best regards,
Tom

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