2015-08-10 16:54 GMT+02:00 Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>:

> Zero conventionally means end-of-file, but record boundaries are preserved
> on capable streams, so if a writer writes zero, the reader reads zero.
>

However this two requirements do not seem reconcilable.

Zero can either mean EOF or "I'm alive but boring".

I can't see how a reliable communication (a cpu connection for example) can
survive this mismatch.
I'm probably missing something.


Giacomo