Re: GSFileHandle doesn't work on Serial Ports

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 3 Feb 2006, at 15:14, Marc Brünink wrote:

> Hi,
>
> in [GSFileHandle read:length:] we use a read() system call. If I  
> understood it correctly read() blocks until the requested amount of  
> data is read or special circumstances raise (e.g. EOF). On a steady  
> serial  connection there's no such thing as EOT. Therefore  
> [NSFileHandle availableData], [NSFileHandle  
> readInBackgroundAndNotify],... block until READ_SIZE bytes are  
> read. I've seen this on Windows XP, Solaris 10 and I belief on  
> debain sarge, too.

I've comitted a change to subversion which should fix this ... the  
code was just setting the handle to be blocking when it should have  
set it to non-blocking.