hGetBuf (or something related) broken for 6.2 with sockets

Simon Marlow simonmar at microsoft.com
Fri Dec 19 05:26:02 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.

I'm a bit lost.  Do things work as you expect, or not?

Cheers,
	Simon


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