Subject: Re: fread, fd behavior, and perl
To: Tom Spindler <dogcow@redback.com>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/11/2000 15:50:25
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 05:35:49PM -0800, Tom Spindler wrote:
> perl 5.6 RC1 complains about instances where fread returns 0
> but neither feof or ferror are true; the FreeBSD pr where
> this was discussed is http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=12852
>
> Should anything be done about this?
What about nonblocking reads? wouldn't they create the above situation?
-is
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