On 1/3/04 2:40 PM, "Dar Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday, January 2, 2004, at 10:34 PM, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> But... what happens if no data is present? Wouldn't it cause a >> cpu-intensive-slowing-down loop like: >> >> read >> nothing's there so finished so signal read >> >> ? > > No.
Why not? :) > Isn't that cool? Yes, if true. (^_^) I will test it now and see. > > How would you know that? For me I wanted it so bad, when I first > started using revolution that I experimented until I found it. Well, it's good I joined this mail list today then! > > The read completes only then the buffer is non-empty. Ah. So if the buffer is originally empty, it waits for it to be non-empty and then reads? Interesting. > > Uh, what OS are you using? > I am developing using Mac OS X, but this must end up being a cross-platform client. Why? doug _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
