On Fri, Jul 11, 2003, Damon Hastings wrote:
> This is probably a stupid question, but how do you do line-oriented blocking
> socket reads in Pth? There's a pth_read() which I assume blocks until a
> specified number of bytes (or eof) are received -- but I'm looking for
> something like pth_gets() to block until a newline is received. I don't
> think you could even write a simple webserver in Pth without such a
> function, though you could of course implement it yourself via a
> non-blocking pth_read in a loop. I'll implement it myself if need be,
> though I would rather trust someone else's code, as I've never used Pth
> before and there are lots of tricky error conditions in socket programming.
>
> The documentation at http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/pth-manual.html
> includes a simple output-only server as a code example -- is there an
> input/output example somewhere?
See the file test_common.c in the Pth source tree. It provides a
pth_readline() function (just a small but sufficient buffered wrapper
around pth_read()) which should do exactly what you want.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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