On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Thompson, David <dthomps...@worcester.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Jan Synáček <jan.syna...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I have an open fd to a unix socket and I want to read data from it. I >> know that the data is going to be only strings, but I don't know the >> length in advance. The good thing about using read-string!/partial is, >> that I don't have to specify how many bytes I want to read and it does >> the right thing. If you point me to a better direction, I'll be >> grateful. I came up with: >> >> (for-each (lambda (fd) >> (let* ((buf (make-string 4096))) >> (read-string!/partial buf (fdes->inport fd)) >> (format #t "fd[~a]: ~a" fd buf) (newline))) >> fds) >> > > Maybe 'read-string' in (ice-9 rdelim) is what you're after. > > - Dave
For some reason, 'read-string' blocks when I don't specify a small enough limit. -- Jan Synáček
