Re: [bug-gawk] bug report on PROCINFO[,"READ_TIMEOUT"]

[Andrew J. Schorr]

On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 06:24:05PM -0400, Andrew J. Schorr wrote:
> The good news is that a solution for this is already in the git master branch.
> There is a new retryable I/O feature that enables the use of non-blocking I/O
> and supports the read timeout feature in a more sensible way.  If you'd like
> early access to this capability, you will need to grab a copy of the master
> branch from git.  Note that the behavior will be the same as before unless you
> set PROCINFO[input-file, "RETRY"].  Please refer to the manual for more
> details.

Note: with the git master version of gawk, you can also use multiplexed I/O
via the select call using the gawk-select extension.  You can download it here:

   http://sourceforge.net/projects/gawkextlib/files/

That may obviate the need to use read timeouts.

Regards,
Andy