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Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 20:59:26 -0400
From: Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit>
>Au contraire; sysread reads exactly the number of characters requested;
>what I want is a way for programs that do <FH> all over the place to be
>protected if someone throws a gargantuan number of characters at FH without
>a newline. The $/ = ref_to_int feature is exactly the kind of feature I
>was expecting to do this and I was disappointed that it didn't.
True but sysread is non-blocking, so it can be used for this.
Also, in the event you are dealing with certain types of data-streams,
you could set $/ to a character which should occur in the data.
For example if you're reading a potentially large English language stream (w/o
newlines), set $/ to e. It's a pain yes, but that's what you get for having
control ;-)
Just pointing out there are "ways around this"
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MOTD on Sat Aug 19 2000 12 23:
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