From: Peter Bex <peter....@xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix for #568 Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 20:50:06 +0100
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 08:44:19PM +0100, Peter Bex wrote: >> What finally made it work was to invert the logic for fetching data and >> scanning for newline/carriage return characters and copying strings into >> the line. Now the scan-buffer-line is more complicated, while the >> port-specific read-line implementations are a little bit simpler. > > That reminds me: in posixunix.scm the read-line code sets some slot > number 5. I was unable to figure out what this was for. It seems to > update it to the current position in the buffer while it's scanning and > then resets it to 0 at the end, but this isn't used anywhere I could see. > > Because it looks like it's unused and no other port seems to have or use > a slot 5, I just removed it. Please let me know if this is a mistake! See "port-position", library.scm. cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
