Re: Reading data from a file descriptor

[tomas]

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On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 12:40:53PM +0200, Andy Wingo wrote:
> On Tue 17 Nov 2015 14:55, Chris Vine <address@hidden> 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
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