On Fri May 16 15:26:28 EDT 2014, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
> btw, whats the program that gets hit by alarm notes but wants to
> continue with Bread()?
there's one you wrote, but more on that offline.
- erik
btw, whats the program that gets hit by alarm notes but wants to
continue with Bread()?
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cinap
On Mon May 12 12:42:21 EDT 2014, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
> why? if the program doesnt handle the note, then it shouldnt matter if it
> clunks the biobuf or not as it will be exited by the default handler.
you're right.
- erik
why? if the program doesnt handle the note, then it shouldnt matter if it
clunks the biobuf or not as it will be exited by the default handler.
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cinap
i should elaborate. the case were any error or interrupt looks like Beof
seems like the right thing for any program that looks like a filter. this
is the majority of programs. and this is the current behavior. i wouldn't
want to make the simple case tricky. but the hard case should also not
be
On Mon May 12 12:19:47 EDT 2014, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
> why not check the error string in Bread() and see if its "interrupted"
> and in that case, dont inactivate the stream? or are i'm missing
> something?
that's an excellent suggestion. i thought about it before posting, but
sort of
why not check the error string in Bread() and see if its "interrupted"
and in that case, dont inactivate the stream? or are i'm missing
something?
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cinap
in looking at a particular situation with Bread, i noticed that it
Bgetc, and Bgetrune differ from Brdstr in what it does with read
returns a count <= 0. Brdstr just returns nil. Bread sets Binactive.
this wouldn't matter if there were not two fundamentally different
types of notes: alarms and ev
