Re^2: Socket recv? (!readline)

Please don't encourage people to use <> / readline on sockets. It is a great way to have things appear to lock up mysteriously (just because something arrived that didn't end in a newline character). It is a much better idea to read from a socket using read or sysread.

- tye

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Re^3: Socket recv? (read vs sysread) by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 12, 2011 at 08:09 UTC
`read` will block until the requested number of characters has arrived (if possible). (Not sure how that's different than `readline`.) `select` cannot be used in conjunction with `read`. `sysread` will block until data is present and return whatever data is present (up to the specified amount). `sysread` and `select` can work in concert.	[reply] [d/l] [select]