I have come across the term blocking read, but I don't know what it means. I've tried googling but can't find an answer.
I'm guessing it means read from a stream in blocks rather than in lines or characters.
I have come across the term blocking read, but I don't know what it means. I've tried googling but can't find an answer.
I'm guessing it means read from a stream in blocks rather than in lines or characters.
No you are wrong, keep googling
Basically, it's a read operation that waits for input (or at least first sees if the input buffer/stream has data to process and does so) and returns only when data has been processed. A non-blocking read will get whatever happens to be in said input buffer/stream and immediately returns (even if there is nothing at all to be processed).
Consider: Asynchronous I/O - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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