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Re: [bug-gawk] bug report on PROCINFO[,"READ_TIMEOUT"]
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Aharon Robbins |
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Re: [bug-gawk] bug report on PROCINFO[,"READ_TIMEOUT"] |
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Fri, 15 May 2015 06:01:37 +0300 |
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> It's great to be able to set a limit on how long to wait, but the inability
> to recover from a timeout seems to me to render this feature pretty useless.
> The new RETRY feature in the master branch fixes the issue, although I wonder
> whether READ_TIMEOUT should automatically enable RETRY. I guess changing
> the behavior is not a good idea,
I agree.
> although I wonder if anybody has ever
> made good use of the READ_TIMEOUT feature.
I think this is the lesson we (or I) keep failing to learn. New features
are rarely as useful, or thus as widely used, as they first appear.
I have fantasies of gawk 5.0 slashing lots of features. It'll probably
never happen though. :-(
Thanks,
Arnold
- [bug-gawk] bug report on PROCINFO[,"READ_TIMEOUT"], Alejandro Mendoza, 2015/05/05
- Re: [bug-gawk] bug report on PROCINFO[,"READ_TIMEOUT"], Andrew J. Schorr, 2015/05/05
- Re: [bug-gawk] bug report on PROCINFO[,"READ_TIMEOUT"], Andrew J. Schorr, 2015/05/05
- Re: [bug-gawk] bug report on PROCINFO[,"READ_TIMEOUT"], Aharon Robbins, 2015/05/06
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- Re: [bug-gawk] bug report on PROCINFO[,"READ_TIMEOUT"], Andrew J. Schorr, 2015/05/07
- Re: [bug-gawk] bug report on PROCINFO[,"READ_TIMEOUT"], Aharon Robbins, 2015/05/11
- Re: [bug-gawk] bug report on PROCINFO[,"READ_TIMEOUT"], Andrew J. Schorr, 2015/05/11
- Re: [bug-gawk] bug report on PROCINFO[,"READ_TIMEOUT"],
Aharon Robbins <=
- Re: [bug-gawk] bug report on PROCINFO[,"READ_TIMEOUT"], Eli Zaretskii, 2015/05/15