From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93F40BC28 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2004 02:11:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iA61BlMR023396 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2004 02:11:47 +0100 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA20973 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2004 02:11:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from appliedminds.com (mail.appliedminds.com [65.104.119.58]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iA61BipK015234 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 2004 02:11:45 +0100 Received: from [10.10.10.55] (HELO appliedminds.com) by appliedminds.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.5) with ESMTP id 1069069 for caml-list@inria.fr; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 17:11:40 -0800 Received: from [10.11.15.35] (account jamesl HELO [10.11.15.35]) by appliedminds.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.5) with ESMTP id 667572 for caml-list@inria.fr; Fri, 05 Nov 2004 17:11:31 -0800 Message-ID: <418C23A5.8090807@appliedminds.com> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 17:06:45 -0800 From: James Lamanna User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040917) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Unix.read always returns 0 bytes X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 418C24D3.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 418C24D0.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 continually:98 unix:01 unix:01 kernel:01 descriptor:02 descriptor:02 exhibit:02 bytes:03 bytes:03 suggestions:05 interface:05 fixes:06 installed:06 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: I just recently installed ocaml3.08.0 on a new Athlon64 system under a 2.6.9 linux kernel. I'm trying to read from a file descriptor provided by the Linux event interface. However, I've noticed that once I send one event (from a joystick in this case), Unix.read continually returns 0 bytes for forever (select() even returns that the descriptor can be read). The corresponding C program does not exhibit this behavior. Any suggestions/fixes on why Ocaml is doing this? Thank you. Please CC me for I am not subscribed. -- James Lamanna