libera/#sbcl - IRC Chatlog

15:23:14 Guest74 that's unfortunate. I'm assuming there's nothing more clever than reading bytes until a terminating byte?

15:23:29 Shinmera send a fixed number of bytes first that says how many bytes to follow.

15:24:07 Guest74 oh i'm not making a protocol. This is for dbus.

15:24:11 Shinmera ah.

15:24:35 Shinmera yeah, not much you can do except check if there's anything to read at all.

15:24:43 Shinmera and then just read the full message.

15:25:52 Guest74 by check you mean something like LISTEN?

15:26:12 Guest74 sometimes I wish i had taken comp sci.

15:26:29 flip214 ioctl(fd,FIONREAD,&bytes_available)

15:27:24 Shinmera Sure, whatever the SBCL equivalent interface is

15:27:29 Shinmera I only know usocket's.

15:27:42 Guest74 oh, that's interesting.

15:28:26 Guest74 Oh, does usocket have local sockets? I'd rather use something not implementation specific, but that doesnt require some random c library being installed.

15:28:26 flip214 of course, the value might change at any time...

15:29:52 flip214 on Linux, a local TCP socket is mostly the same as a unix socket (performance-wise)

15:30:03 Shinmera Guest74: it does not, afaik.

15:30:26 Guest74 ah, shame that.

15:40:46 etimmons scymtym_: I thought READ-SEQUENCE could only read less than the specified length if the end of file was reached

15:44:01 Guest74 looks like that's what clhs says

15:44:38 Shinmera Yeah, it's unfortunately not suitable for async-ish stuff :(

16:45:57 scymtym_ etimmons: sure. that's why i brought up the question of how available data should be defined and mentioned closed connections

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