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| From | Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Is it possible to send message bursts? |
| Date | Mon, 2 Jan 2023 19:13:40 -0000 (UTC) |
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Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> wrote: > Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote: >> I don't understand. read() is a blocking method, so if there >> is no input it blocks until there is input. It returns -1 >> if end of stream is reached (and stream is then invalid and >> no point in calling read again). > > Outside of Java world, if stdin is bound to a terminal, then > receiving an EOF and still being able to read more data till > next EOF is not quite as bizarre as it might look like to > Java'ists ;-) Another use could be file-based Streams: You read a file to its end. Some other process appends data to the file. You could now (theoretically) read some more data. I must admit, I'm not sure(*), if that would work in Java, with its rather simple stream-abstraction, but it surely does seem reasonable in principle. *: and I'm too lazy to check ;-)
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Is it possible to send message bursts? mike <mikaelpetterson@hotmail.com> - 2023-01-02 02:10 -0800
Re: Is it possible to send message bursts? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2023-01-02 10:42 -0500
Re: Is it possible to send message bursts? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2023-01-02 19:05 +0000
Re: Is it possible to send message bursts? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2023-01-02 19:13 +0000
Re: Is it possible to send message bursts? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2023-01-02 19:27 -0500
Re: Is it possible to send message bursts? "e.d.pro...@gmail.com" <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2023-01-03 04:07 -0800
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