On Tue 17 Nov 2015 14:55, Chris Vine <ch...@cvine.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:52:21 +0100 >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:59:56PM +0000, Chris Vine wrote: >> > On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:53:19 +0100 >> >> [...] >> >> > guile's R6RS implementation has get-bytevector-some, which will do >> > that for you, with unix-read-like behaviour. >> >> Thank you a thousand. You made me happy :-) > > I suppose it is worth adding that it might not be optimally efficient > for all uses, as there is no get-bytevector-some! procedure which > modifies an existing bytevector and takes a maximum length value. I > guess it is a matter of 'suck it and see', efficiency-wise. I would be happy to support such an interface though. I guess it would take a keyword or optional argument indicating a minimum number of bytes to fill, and if that number is 0 it would never block; sound about right? Andy
