On 3/1/07, Mike Verdone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When write is called check if the buffer is bigger than buffer_size. > If it is attempt to pre-flush the buffer. If we can't pre-flush, raise > BlockingIO error.
I'd much rather see dynamically-sized buffers. If it works as you describe, then any application that wants to use reliable [1] non-blocking I/O is going to have keep its own buffer of data waiting to be written to the Buffered IO object. That's a pain and needlessly redundant. One could just set the buffer "large enough" for the applications current needs, but this can lead to strange failures later when the application needs to hold buffer_size+1 bytes in the buffer and suddenly dies. [1] = "reliable" in the sense of "no data loss unless the connection drops" -- Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D. President, Stutzbach Enterprises LLC _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
