Re: [Q] NSFileHandle -readDataOfLength behaviour

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 13 Apr 2007, at 02:21, Vaisburd, Haim wrote:

> Hi,
>
> While working on my byte stream functions and trying to base them on
> NSFileHandle instead of NSStreams I discovered a strange feature of
> [NSFileHandle -readDataOfLength:] implementation in GNUstep.
>
> I was trying to determine whether this method blocks until it reads
> the requested number of bytes or it blocks only until anything is
> available,
> then it returns what's avaiable up to the length (i.e. normal read()
> semantics).

Thanks ... you spotted a bug ... this method should block until it  
reads the specified amount of data (or eof).
This should be fixed in subversion now.