Top "Nonblocking" questions

A non-blocking read on a subprocess.PIPE in Python

I'm using the subprocess module to start a subprocess and connect to its output stream (standard output). I want to …

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What does Python's socket.recv() return for non-blocking sockets if no data is received until a timeout occurs?

Basically, I've read in several places that socket.recv() will return whatever it can read, or an empty string signalling …

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Polling the keyboard (detect a keypress) in python

How can I poll the keyboard from a console python app? Specifically, I would like to do something akin to …

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C non-blocking keyboard input

I'm trying to write a program in C (on Linux) that loops until the user presses a key, but shouldn't …

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Simplest way to do a fire and forget method in C#?

I saw in WCF they have the [OperationContract(IsOneWay = true)] attribute. But WCF seems kind of slow and heavy just …

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PySerial non-blocking read loop

I am reading serial data like this: connected = False port = 'COM4' baud = 9600 ser = serial.Serial(port, baud, timeout=0) while …

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What is non-blocking or asynchronous I/O in Node.js?

In the context of Server Side Javascript engines, what is non-blocking I/O or asynchronous I/O? I see this …

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Is asynchronous jdbc call possible?

I wonder if there is a way to make asynchronous calls to a database? For instance, imagine that I've a …

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How do you do non-blocking console I/O on Linux in C?

How do you do nonblocking console IO on Linux/OS X in C?

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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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