hGetBuf (or something related) broken for 6.2 with sockets

Tomasz Zielonka t.zielonka at students.mimuw.edu.pl
Fri Dec 19 02:30:19 EST 2003


On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:53:50PM +0100, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 07:44:58PM +0100, George Russell wrote:
> 
> 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.

I've made a mistake here.

hGetBuf waits for filling the whole Handle's reading buffer (or reaching
EOF), even if the buffer contains enough data to satisfy the request.

Best regards,
Tom

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