[erlang-questions] input too fast

[Bengt Kleberg]

greetings,

i have a better idea than my previous suggestions. once, upon one of the 
occasions that i tried to make a contribution to the shootout, i noted 
the lack of stdin/stdout/stderr access from the file module. looking 
around i found my old code (from many years ago) and this is what i had 
at the time:

add the possibility to handle the atom standard_io as an IoDevice in 
file:read/2, write/2, pread/2-3, pwrite/2-3.

1 this is backwards compatible since nobody can have used an atom here.
2 it is consistent since the io module has this possibility already.

it might be a good idea to add a access stderr, too.


bengt
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