Re: Select on channels (again)

["Nathaniel Gray" <n8gray@gmail.com>]

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Hello?  Is this thing on?

On 8/14/06, Nathaniel Gray <n8gray@gmail.com> wrote:
> Like others before me, I'm hitting the frustrating limitation that
> it's impossible to select on a channel.  This limitation forces one to
> reimplement buffered IO in many situations where using channels would
> otherwise be easy and sensible.  There has been discussion on this
> list in the past about this limitation[1], and there have been two
> requests filed in mantis for this feature[2,3], but the ocaml dev team
> has been silent on the matter.  Is this feature objectionable to the
> dev team or is it just a case of "too much work, not enough time?"  If
> somebody was to submit a quality patch implementing the feature would
> it be accepted?
>
> Cheers,
> -n8
>
> [1] <http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2005/03/8aae2e3c54cfb976fe52664ab1c84994.en.html>
> [2] <http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=3075>
> [3] <http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=3579>
>
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