On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Saúl Ibarra Corretgé <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 11/19/13 4:54 PM, Aaron Boxer wrote:
>
>> I see that that the library is designed to read from the socket into a
>> user-provided buffer
>> and make the buffer available to the client in a callback.
>>
>> Suppose I want to handle reading from the socket: for example suppose I
>> want
>> to splice the data (on LInux) into a different file descriptor. Or read
>> directly
>> into another location. Is this possible?  If I pass null as the
>> alloc_buffer callback,
>> can I manage reading from the socket myself?
>>
>>
> Not if you use a tcp/udp/pipe handle, but you can create a socket
> yourself, use a poll handle to get notified when it's ready for
> reading/writing, and then do the reading yourself.
>
>
>
Thanks! Good to know.  This library is fantastic, I am really happy I
switched from libev/libeio .

> Cheers,
>
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