On 07/13/11 06:39 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
Jing LV wrote:
Hello,
Alan (or anyone else), do we have time to discuss these postponed
defects? Or do you have a outlook for this?
Thank you.
Sorry for the late reply, I've been on vacation.
Sorry, I also meant to respond. Just got lost in all the noise recently.
I think now is a good time to discuss this one. As I mentioned in the
initial discussion, the existing behavior is platform specific. Once
shutdown for input, then the ioctl(FIONREAD) or equivalent will continue
to return the number of bytes in the socket buffer, other platforms will
return 0. Changing the implementation is trivial and the question is
whether this is the right thing to do. We will also need to clarify the
specification. Chris, Michael - do you have opinions on this one?
I can't see that anyone could be depending on the fact the available()
would return > 0 after shutdownInput(), given that subsequent reads will
always return -1. I just can't see why anyone would require this, but
maybe I'm missing something.
-Chris.
-Alan.
