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Re: Generic gloss read patch
- To: "J. Johnston" <jjohnstn at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Generic gloss read patch
- From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:30:23 -0500
- Cc: sid at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <3A64DA7A.FC6F014@cygnus.com>
Hi -
jjohnstn wrote:
: I ran into a problem with gloss32::read trying to read n characters
: from stdin.
: read (0, buffer, 10);
: What happens is that the gloss32::read function reads one character at
: a time from the buffer in a loop that is checking to see if the total
: number of characters has been read. The read buffer doesn't get filled
: right away so if read empties the buffer before the len characters are
: read, it returns false and denotes the read as blocked. [...]
That's true - gloss is not right to do that. However, the UNIX read system
call is permitted to return any number of bytes > 0 and <= 10 in response to
such a call; it need not block until exactly 10 arrive.
This means that your fix is nearly right, except that it should not assert
! // check if we have enough characters to satisfy the request
! // if not, no point in reading since we will end up blocked
! // and the read will be reissued
! if (rx_buffer.size() >= len)
but rather "> 0"; and then the loop
! for (int i = 0; i < len; ++i)
should read
! for (int i = 0; i < len && rx_buffer.size() > 0; ++i)
By the way, as an alternative to the character-by-character copy loop
from rx_buffer to strbuf, consider something like
strbuf = rx_buffer.substr (0, min(len, rx_buffer.size()));
rx_buffer = rx_buffer.substr (min(len, rx_buffer.size()));
- FChE
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