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| From: | Aharon Robbins |
| Subject: | Re: [bug-gawk] bug report on PROCINFO[,"READ_TIMEOUT"] |
| Date: | Mon, 11 May 2015 15:43:26 +0300 |
| User-agent: | Heirloom mailx 12.5 6/20/10 |
> Why is READ_TIMEOUT actually useful? I can't think of any usage cases > where it wouldn't be preferable to use select. Maybe I'm missing something. I don't remember the motivation or who first did that code. I suspect it was for interactive I/O, so that a program didn't sit prompting for input forever. But I really don't remember. Arnold
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