Re: Reading data from a file descriptor

[tomas]

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On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:07:11PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
> <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> > what Jan is after (and what I'd like to have too) is something
> > akin to Unix read(2) with O_NONBLOCK: [...]

> The procedure with the closest semantics is R6RS
> `get-bytevector-some`. While the R6RS says it will block if no data is
> available, a quick look at Guile source code seems to indicate that it
> probably works with non-blocking I/O -- I'd say it should return EOF if
> called on a non-readable, non-blocking port, and otherwise not block,
> and return the data available. This is all just from a quick
> inspection, without running any actual code.

Thanks a bunch for looking into it. I'll give it a try and report back.

Regards
- -- tomás
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