Re: Re: Fixing socket reads

On Fri, 04 Oct 2002, Sascha Schumann wrote: > Here is a second patch, with a third coming some time later. > > The current stream implementation does not consume its > buffered data before starting new reads. That causes serious > problems with sockets, of course, if you have an application > which exchanges commands/replies with a server. The > stream_gets function reads many lines, returns a single one, > and then tries to read from the network again. > > The patch changes the semantic: Consume the buffer first, > then call the stream read op. > > My fgets-based pop3 reader works with this patch already. I > suspect that fread exposes similar problems though, but I > don't have time right now to improve it similarly. Guys, Are we going to have the streams stuff sorted before tomorrow? -Andrei http://www.gravitonic.com/ "The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. " -- Sir George Jessel