On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 03:05:25PM +0100, Keean Schupke wrote: > >strace seems to say yes. > > > > > Thats odd, the source code seems to suggest that when you read past the > end of the buffer > it reads the next entire buffer (it has cases for each possible buffer > configuration, line, block and none) - and I can think of no reason > _why_ it cannot use buffering... I would think that it's a bug if it is > the case.
Because the next entire buffer might consume more data than the remote has sent. That results in deadlock. -- John _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
