So lots of unix old-timers think stdio is unsuitable for interactive & async apps due to blocking, but there's an easy solution. Thread.
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Erm, or use them non-blocking?
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Maybe joke went over head, but to answer anyway, there's no nonblocking way to use stdio.
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if you mean ANSI FILEβˆ— streams then I suppose not. But then again there's no threads in ANSI C either.
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There are threads in ISO C 11
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They added threads, but no concept of directories?
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I'm pretty sure there are more computers running multithreaded programs than using hierarchical filesystems
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Replying to @benhutchingsuk @fanf @RichFelker
Mmm perhaps, though at that point, stdio is hardly worrisome :-)

Sep 12, 2017 Β· 2:17 PM UTC