On Mon Jan 9 04:57:17 EST 2012, faif...@gmail.com wrote: > read(2) reads up to N bytes but doesn't stop on newlines. Brdline(2) > looks like a good candidate for that. Are there any functions > outside Bio that behave similarly?
if you're application is one where the producer is producing a line at a time, then read(2) will read a line at a time; plan 9 doesn't coalesce writes. (raw tcp connections notwithstanding.) - erik