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- From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: Pgnews 2.0 (Larry Wall Please Look)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.171230.5635@netlabs.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 17:12:30 GMT
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- In article <2844@wrdis01.af.mil> mcgough@wrdis01.af.mil (Jeffrey B. McGough) writes:
- : Exception:
- : While actually slurping up the article the select does not work???
- : Barry Hassler seems to think that at that point PERL has
- : already sucked the whole thing into its own memory buffers...
- : Leaving nothing for the select to work on.
- : Care to comment Larry???
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- Barry is correct. Use recv() or sysread() to avoid stdio buffers.
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- Larry
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