On Sep 27, 2002 at 11:37, Philip S Tellis wrote: >On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Satya wrote: >> Bah, I should've used fgets() for my parser, instead of reading a >> character at a time and examining it. Bah. Philip, is my method so >> horrendous that I should replace it with fgets(), assuming it's not >reading a character at a time is fine if you don't care about >bufferring. However, you'll have to take care of backspace yourself.
It's reading from a disk file, so no worries about backspace and such. >It's good when you're doing a non-blocking read (using select). Whta's good? fgets()? I'm doing a select()ed read elsewhere. The select call is doing double-duty: waiting for a packet and waiting for a timeout. -- Satya. <URL:http://satya.virtualave.net/> hAS aNYONE sEEN mY cAPSLOCK kEY ? _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
