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From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bindings for ‘sendfile’
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:33:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4ik5ciy.fsf@zigzag.favinet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sj32rubt.fsf@inria.fr> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:53:26 +0200")

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() ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
() Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:53:26 +0200

   +In other cases, the libc function may send fewer bytes than
   +@var{count}---for instance because @var{out} is a slow or limited
   +device, such as a pipe.  When that happens, Guile's @code{sendfile}
   +automatically retries until exactly @var{count} bytes were sent or an
   +error occurs.

A short write is an opportunity for the caller to Do Something Else
(i.e., go asynchronous).  I think that is more useful than internalizing
the looping.  To accomodate both usage patterns, you could leave the
low-level proc as-is (as-was :-D) and provide another proc that loops.

-- 
Thien-Thi Nguyen
GPG key: 4C807502

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-09  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-20 22:21 [PATCH] Bindings for ‘sendfile’ Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-21  0:17 ` Noah Lavine
2013-03-21  9:15   ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-21 10:04     ` Andrew Gaylard
2013-03-21 15:39     ` Noah Lavine
2013-03-21  3:45 ` Nala Ginrut
2013-03-21  4:50 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-03-21  5:24   ` Mark H Weaver
2013-03-21  9:40   ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-21  9:49     ` Andy Wingo
2013-03-21 10:10       ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-22 19:22     ` Mark H Weaver
2013-03-22 21:27       ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-24  5:04         ` Mark H Weaver
2013-03-25 12:55           ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-07 19:53     ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-09  8:33       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen [this message]
2013-04-09 15:02         ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-09 20:34           ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-04-10 11:26             ` Mark H Weaver
2013-04-14 10:48               ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-04-16 16:31                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-16 20:14                   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-04-17 12:52                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-17 15:18                       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-04-17 16:27                         ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-18  6:58                           ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-04-10 20:56             ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-04-14 10:52               ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2013-04-07 21:51   ` Ludovic Courtès

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