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select (or polling) on in_channel?

Eijiro Sumii
- Gerd Stolpmann
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- Christoph Bauer
  - Eijiro Sumii
    - Eijiro Sumii
    - Alex Baretta
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        Alex Baretta
        
        Eijiro Sumii
        
        Richard Jones
        
        Eijiro Sumii

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

P.S.  I've also received an e-mail informing me that Cash

  http://pauillac.inria.fr/cash/latest/doc/Cash.html

has such a function.  It looks nice, but having it in pure/core OCaml
would be even nicer.

From: "Eijiro Sumii" <eijiro_sumii@anet.ne.jp>
> Thanks to everyone for ideas on how to "select" Pervasives.in_channel.
> Since there seems to be no better solution than
> 
>   (1) hacking the low-level structure by using external C, or
> 
>   (2) reinventing the high-level library on top of Unix I/O,
> 
> I'm thinking of submitting a feature wish at
> http://pauillac.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs.  It should be easy enough for
> the developers to implement, I hope...  (I could contribute my own
> implementation if necessary, but I'm sure they will do better work.)