Top "Blocking" questions

What does InputStream.available() do in Java?

What does InputStream.available() do in Java? I read the documentation, but I still cannot make it out. The doc …

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Non-blocking getch(), ncurses

I'm having some problems getting ncurses' getch() to block. Default operation seems to be non-blocking (or have I missed some …

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Oracle select for update behaviour

The problem we try to solve looks like this. We have a table full of rows which represent cards. The …

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Blocking IO vs non-blocking IO; looking for good articles

Once upon a time I bumped into Introduction to Indy article and can't stop thinking about blocking vs non-blocking IO …

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Linux Blocking vs. non Blocking Serial Read

i have this code for reading from Serial in Linux , but i don't know what is the difference between blocking …

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MySQL : Permanently getting " Waiting for table metadata lock"

My MySQL database serves three webapps as the storage backend. However I recently encounter permanantly the error "Waiting for table …

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How to interrupt a BlockingQueue which is blocking on take()?

I have a class that takes objects from a BlockingQueue and processes them by calling take() in a continuous loop. …

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Is non-blocking I/O really faster than multi-threaded blocking I/O? How?

I searched the web on some technical details about blocking I/O and non blocking I/O and I found …

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How do I perform a non-blocking fopen on a named pipe (mkfifo)?

If I have a program which creates and attempts to open a named pipe using mkfifo, how can I open …

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How would you implement a basic event-loop?

If you have worked with gui toolkits, you know that there is a event-loop/main-loop that should be executed after …

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