Top "Nonblocking" questions

Non-blocking mode I/O either transfers at least one byte or returns immediately with an error or end of stream.

What's the difference between: Asynchronous, Non-Blocking, Event-Base architectures?

What's the difference between: Asynchronous, Non-Blocking, and Event-base architectures? Can something be both asynchronous and non-blocking (and event-based)? What's most …

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When and how to use Tornado? When is it useless?

Ok, Tornado is non-blocking and quite fast and it can handle a lot of standing requests easily. But I guess …

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Python: Non-blocking socket or Asynchronos I/O

I am new to Python and currently have to write a python socket to be run as a script that …

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Golang blocking and non blocking

I am somewhat confused over how Go handles non blocking IO. API's mostly look synchronous to me, and when watching …

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Why does a read-only open of a named pipe block?

I've noticed a couple of oddities when dealing with named pipes (FIFOs) under various flavors of UNIX (Linux, FreeBSD and …

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Java thread per connection model vs NIO

Is the non-blocking Java NIO still slower than your standard thread per connection asynchronous socket? In addition, if you were …

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How can I get non-blocking socket connect()'s?

I have a quite simple problem here. I need to communicate with a lot of hosts simultaneously, but I do …

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Is O_NONBLOCK being set a property of the file descriptor or underlying file?

From what I have been reading on The Open Group website on fcntl, open, read, and write, I get the …

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How to reset a socket back to blocking mode (after I set it to nonblocking mode)?

I have read this regarding setting a socket to non-blocking mode. http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/…

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recv with non-blocking socket

I am trying to implement non-blocking for socket recv and the problem is that I got an error -1 when …

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