[iolib-devel] Bug when using READ-LINE on non-blocking fds

[Matthew Mondor]

On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:09:08 +0100
Stelian Ionescu <stelian.ionescu-zeus at poste.it> wrote:

> It's possible: you can use drain-input-buffer to copy data from the
> buffers(it returns two values: the offset of the first element of the
> sequence that wasn't overwritten, and the number of octets remaining in
> the buffer or NIL if there aren't any left). After that you can use
> receive-from. Technically, you can use it at any moment, but since there
> may be data left in the stream buffer, you lose ordering of the stream
> data)

Indeed

> Since you use iolib, you might as well use babel's o-t-s and s-t-o
> functions.

Thanks for the suggestion, I tried it and verified if performance was
affected but it doesn't seem to be (at least not noticeably).
-- 
Matt