I/O callbacks in blocking mode

The reason I think it is ugly is that it isn't robust. It will cause the process to *hang* if started in such a way that other some other process competes for the stdin data. If the program reads stdin and a socket (say an X interface), I want to be able to interact with it through the socket even if something fishy happened to its stdin.

To me, this is a corner where unix is simply braindamaged, and there's no way to deal with it that I particularly like.

/ Niels Möller ()

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2003-03-19 14:12: Subject: I/O callbacks in blocking mode

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I don't think it's ugly to read in blocking mode using select. Even the examples in the manpage does it. Using stdin, actually.

/ Per Hedbor ()