On 23 Oct 2017, at 2:18, Alef Veld wrote:
Hi Bill,
I think I have it set to 3. I did that while setting things up and I
have not yet put it back. I know this gives a lot of debugging, but
would it to the point where it would overload my server/adversely
affect my cpu)?
In principle, yes, but if you're using hardware manufactured in this
century or a reasonable virtualization of such hardware, no.
It demonstrably leads to a waste of brainpower, which does not benefit
from Moore's Law.
-1 in the read() would indicate to me that it could not read the
amount of bytes and thus an error. Is that incorrect?
It's overly simplistic. See the man page for read() and note the
symbolic name of the first-cited potential value for errno when read()
returns -1. It's a clue.
