On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:38:14 +0100, Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron, > > I'm working toward a unified implementation for both functions. But what I > don't > understand is the reason for splitting them up in the first place. Ok, so > _network does more checking on the state of the instream, but other than > that...?? Ownership of the stream I'm guessing? >
These functions were (originally) mine. The difference is mostly this: read from pipe: just read everything until EOF read from network: read everything until the singe '.' on a line. That's why they're split up. I couldn't come up with a nice way of combining these (probably my lack of fantasy..) Ilja
