From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ae711c481a7059 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-07 09:04:58 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!news-stob.telia.net!telia.net!194.22.194.4.MISMATCH!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bj�rn Persson Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Can I treat Current_Output as a file of bytes? Message-ID: <20021107180450.60e2d0f2.bjorn_persson.spam-is-evil@sverige.nu> References: X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 0.5.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 17:04:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.64.50.193 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1036688695 213.64.50.193 (Thu, 07 Nov 2002 18:04:55 CET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 18:04:55 CET Organization: Telia Internet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30545 Date: 2002-11-07T17:04:55+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 07:28:46 +0100 (MET) "Grein, Christoph" wrote: > There are two forms of Get_Immediate: One blocking until data is available, the other not blocking > and returning a boolean to indicate whether data is available. Yes, I know. I use both. What I want is either a non-blocking Read that doesn't lie about what it reads, or an Input_Is_Available that just checks if there is data waiting or not. > There is also a look-ahead. But that's blocking too, isn't it? Bj�rn Persson