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select (or polling) on in_channel?

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Date:	-- (:)
From:	Eijiro Sumii <eijiro_sumii@a...>
Subject:	select (or polling) on in_channel?

Hi again...

Is there any easy way to _correctly_ do a "select" (as in the UNIX
system call) on Pervasives.in_channel?  My naive approach

  Unix.select [Unix.descr_of_in_channel ic] [] [] 0.

seems to fail (and it indeed does fail) because of the buffering
inside Pervasives.in_channel, as long as I checked the source code of
ocaml-3.08.3.  Pervasives.in_channel_length doesn't help in my case
since the input channel is not a file.  Should I use only the
low-level functions in the Unix module if I _ever_ want "select"?

Thanks,

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Eijiro Sumii (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sumii/)
Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania