For this app I'd be okay with that. The logic of my app guarantees enough data to satisfy the readline will be on its way or else the socket will be dying justifying an empty readline. I don't expect select to guarantee me that all the data I could possibly want is available, just to notify me that some data is there. I can agree that sysread() is better though for complete safety in the presense of network hiccups.

But there's a worse problem I think. Suppose the first thing I do after opening a socket is exchange some info back and forth and then I put the socket in my main loop where select is used. I'd like to use the easy readline coding style for those initial exchanges but unless I'm missing something I can't do that. If at any point in the future of the program my socket will be used with select() then I must not use any buffering read call earlier in the socket's life.

That's a very harsh restriction. Is there any way around it?

In reply to Re^4: select() and input buffering by declan
in thread select() and input buffering by declan

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