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

[Aharon Robbins]

> It's great to be able to set a limit on how long to wait, but the inability
> to recover from a timeout seems to me to render this feature pretty useless.
> The new RETRY feature in the master branch fixes the issue, although I wonder
> whether READ_TIMEOUT should automatically enable RETRY.  I guess changing
> the behavior is not a good idea,

I agree.

> although I wonder if anybody has ever
> made good use of the READ_TIMEOUT feature.

I think this is the lesson we (or I) keep failing to learn. New features
are rarely as useful, or thus as widely used, as they first appear.

I have fantasies of gawk 5.0 slashing lots of features. It'll probably
never happen though. :-(

Thanks,

Arnold