2015-08-10 16:54 GMT+02:00 Charles Forsyth <charles.fors...@gmail.com>:
> Zero conventionally means end-of-file, but record boundaries are preserved > on capable streams, so if a writer writes zero, the reader reads zero. > However this two requirements do not seem reconcilable. Zero can either mean EOF or "I'm alive but boring". I can't see how a reliable communication (a cpu connection for example) can survive this mismatch. I'm probably missing something. Giacomo