> I want to code nonblocking IO on Linux (I am not concerned with
> "portability" problems to non-unix system). Of course I will use
> Unix.select to wait for availability of input and output.  (I do not
> want to use multithreading here  because I might have several dozens of such
> I/O "ports" thru Unix named FIFOs).
> 
> Can I use Pervasives channels and then
> 
> Unix.set_nonblock (Unix.descr_of_in_channel myinchan)
> Unix.set_nonblock (Unix.descr_of_out_channel myoutchan)
> 
> and then read & write bytes with
>   Pervasives.input myinchan buf pos len
>   Pervasives.output myoutchan buf pos len

Yes -- the bytecode thread library does just that.
Be prepared to handle the Sys_blocked_io exception that will be raised
by Pervasives I/O functions when they cannot complete without
blocking.

- Xavier Leroy
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