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Top Ten New Things You Can Do with NIO | |
| Subject: | non-blocking and select | |
| Date: | 2002-10-10 09:39:56 | |
| From: | anonymous2 | |
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Thanks for an excellant article. You accurately seperate non-blocking from multiplexing, which previous articles on NIO have not done.
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non-blocking and select
2002-10-15 14:37:34 Ron Hitchens |
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Re: why channels must be non-blocking to be used with a Selector. Here's a direct quote from a member of the NIO Expert Group:
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"This was explicitly discussed, and we were of two minds. The winning idea in the end was that allowing use of Selector with blocking sockets was error-prone -- reusing a big body of blocking I/O code with Selector is likely to break subtly somehow. I'd be hard pressed to say exactly how, but that was our best judgement."
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