On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Jim Lemon wrote: > If my trawling through the "connections" code is correct, a pipe > connection is designed to read to EOF before returning its input to the > parsing function. Blocking is not an option with this type of connection.
Not so: it is parse(file=) that is designed to read to EOF. pipe() does nothing, but reading from a pipe reads connections however much is asked for. If you want non-blocking, use a socket or fifo. > As I do not know how to spoof an EOF on an open pipe, it looks like I > would have to rewrite 3 or 4 fairly low level functions to return input on > EOL. > > My impression is that this is the wrong way to go about this. After all, I > am sure that something similar is already being done using the present > connection functions. Any suggestions as to where else I might look would > be greatly appreciated. I have already sent you such a reply, on Monday 24th. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
