On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 7:25 AM Kacper Gutowski <mwgam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 10:22:52PM +0100, Hans-Peter Sorge wrote: > >the return size from ⎕FIO[24] / ⎕FIO[6] is limited to 5000B: > (...) > >Should be: What ever it takes :-) > > It's not limited to 5000B, it's just the default size and you can use > any other with dyadic form. ⎕FIO is fairly low-level and has very few > convenience wrappers like ⎕FIO[26]. Perhaps one doing popen and reading > the whole output like Perl's `` would be in order too, but it definitely > shouldn't be what ⎕FIO[6] does. > > You can relatively easily do something like this: > > ∇ bytes←read_to_eof fd ;buf > [1] bytes←0⍴0 > [2] loop: > [3] →(⎕FIO['feof'] fd)/0 > [4] buf←⎕FIO['fread'] fd > [5] →(0≡buf)/loop > [6] ⎕ES(1≠⍴⍴buf)/⎕FIO['strerror'] buf > [7] bytes←bytes,buf > [8] →loop > ∇ > > (It could be a one-liner if API were designed a bit better, > but it's still workable.) > I'd like to see your API design proposal. Thanks! Blake
