Re: [dwm] input status text bug?

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:59:41PM +0100, Sander van Dijk wrote:
> On Nov 2, 2007 6:37 PM, Anselm R. Garbe <arg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 05:21:36PM +0100, Enno Gottox Boland wrote:
> > > It doesn't work at all...
> >
> > Sorry, but I can't reproduce. It works correctly for me so far.
>
> It seems to me that the call to fgets() blocks, that is, when it's
> reading for example from a fifo, and data is coming in over that fifo,
> it will ignore any events until it encounters a newline (the statusbar
> isn't updated until it does, and it doesn't respond to keypresses and
> such).
> I'm not sure if that is what we want, but if it is, than I think it
> should at least be explicitly documented somewhere (probably both in
> the README and in the BUGS section of the manpage).

Hmm, if that's the reason I tend to write a read()-based getline
function which does not block ;)

Regards,

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