Re: [Chicken-users] non-blocking (read)

[Thomas Chust]

Hello,

why don't you just use (file-select ...) on the STDIN descriptor 
(descriptor number 0) directly?

You could also cook up some code using fcntl to switch descriptor 0 into 
non-blocking mode, checking for EWOULDBLOCK returns from read calls and 
ensuring proper multithreading with the builtin 
##sys#thread-block-for-i/o primitive. For an example how that can be 
done and neatly wrapped into a custom input port, I suggest you read the 
sourcecode of CHICKEN's tcp unit.

cu,
Thomas Chust