Re: NSStream vs NSFileHandle

2021-03-09 Thread Allan Odgaard via Cocoa-dev
On 9 Mar 2021, at 12:10, Jean-Daniel wrote: If I had to write a new software that need read/write functions today, I would go for a modern async API, like dispatch_io. This came up while trying to generalize a few things I have that basically transform data, but where size is unknown, and the

Re: NSStream vs NSFileHandle

2021-03-09 Thread Jean-Daniel via Cocoa-dev
> Le 9 mars 2021 à 09:07, Allan Odgaard via Cocoa-dev > a écrit : > > We currently have two different systems that can’t easily be bridged, > effectively doing the same thing, but supporting different sources: > > NSStream can work with files, data, and network streams (created by > NSURLSe

NSStream vs NSFileHandle

2021-03-09 Thread Allan Odgaard via Cocoa-dev
We currently have two different systems that can’t easily be bridged, effectively doing the same thing, but supporting different sources: NSStream can work with files, data, and network streams (created by NSURLSession and other high-level API). NSFileHandle can work with files, pipes, stdin/