On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:59:41PM +0100, Sander van Dijk wrote: > On Nov 2, 2007 6:37 PM, Anselm R. Garbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 05:21:36PM +0100, Enno Gottox Boland wrote: > > > It doesn't work at all... > > > > Sorry, but I can't reproduce. It works correctly for me so far. > > It seems to me that the call to fgets() blocks, that is, when it's > reading for example from a fifo, and data is coming in over that fifo, > it will ignore any events until it encounters a newline (the statusbar > isn't updated until it does, and it doesn't respond to keypresses and > such). > I'm not sure if that is what we want, but if it is, than I think it > should at least be explicitly documented somewhere (probably both in > the README and in the BUGS section of the manpage).
Hmm, if that's the reason I tend to write a read()-based getline function which does not block ;) Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
