Reading from file/stdin non-blocked?

Gordon Tillman got at mindspring.com
Wed Oct 27 14:21:07 EDT 2004


Hi K,

On Oct 27, 2004, at 12:38, K wrote:

> Is there a way to read from stdin or any file and not hold the event 
> loop hostage?

The best I could do with file reads was to use the timeout feature.  I 
uploaded a sample stack to illustrate this to my user space on rev 
online.  username= "gordyt"

It's called "Non-Blocking File Reader".

--gordy



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