-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 12:40:53PM +0200, Andy Wingo wrote: > On Tue 17 Nov 2015 14:55, Chris Vine <ch...@cvine.freeserve.co.uk> writes: > > > On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:52:21 +0100 > >> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:59:56PM +0000, Chris Vine wrote:
[...] > >> > guile's R6RS implementation has get-bytevector-some, which will do > >> > that for you, with unix-read-like behaviour. [...] > > I suppose it is worth adding that it might not be optimally efficient > > for all uses, as there is no get-bytevector-some! procedure which > > modifies an existing bytevector and takes a maximum length value. I > > guess it is a matter of 'suck it and see', efficiency-wise. > > I would be happy to support such an interface though. I guess it would > take a keyword or optional argument indicating a minimum number of bytes > to fill, and if that number is 0 it would never block; sound about > right? Assuming I understood everything involved -- yes, it sounds spot-on. Thanks - - t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAldnzF4ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbbkQCeJtkFrSRYBz9UTX9+pO1v7E3r hKYAn03UD5dhTe9hPpYusaBqTYOu2MbW =WJhe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
