socket.recvfrom() & sendto()

[Michael Hudson]

"Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> writes:

> Under Unix I *believe* that select() can treat a tty channel like a
> socket,

If you munge the terminal settings correctly, yes (actually, I'm not
sure whether you need to munge the terminal settings to get select to
work, or so that the ensuing read works as you want (i.e. not waiting
for end-of-line)).

Cheers,
M.

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