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Re: NSFileHandle notifications

[munched]

Very old bug alert..(perhaps) This is a true reach into almost forgotton memory,
and we all know that the mind is the SECOND thing to go, but..

In a former life I reported an apparent bug in select() all the way back to NeXTSTEP 2.0
At the time it seemed that select always returned "ready" but had zero bytes
to be read. I seem to remember thinking that it was triggered by select calls against tty/pty file handles.

There was some back and forth with the NeXTSTEP tech folks, but I don't think it was ever fixed..

Makes me wonder if some form of this bug has lurked all the way to OS X..


> The no-data could be because there is an error occurring (say, in the
> background wait) or because no data has been added to the file (your fd
> is still "at EOF") but select() is returning the file descriptor as
> readable anyway.
>
> In any case, I'd try converting to -readInBackgroundAndNotify.
>
> Chris Kane
> Cocoa Frameworks, Apple
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