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Top Ten New Things You Can Do with NIO | |
| Subject: | non-blocking and select | |
| Date: | 2002-10-15 14:37:34 | |
| From: | ronhitchens | |
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Response to: non-blocking and select
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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: <blockquote> "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." </blockquote> |
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