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author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2011-03-09 09:19:11 -0500 |
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committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2011-03-09 09:19:11 -0500 |
commit | c02003184926e096884bd741c44da0733fd05761 (patch) | |
tree | 8bd885598558fed68f79b2601fc11a282eca6eab /libgps.xml | |
parent | 2663033714a98a9c9ea1165c330371b949faec0d (diff) | |
download | gpsd-c02003184926e096884bd741c44da0733fd05761.tar.gz |
POLL_NONBLOCK is no more.
Diffstat (limited to 'libgps.xml')
-rw-r--r-- | libgps.xml | 13 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -120,11 +120,10 @@ alternative.</para> <para><function>gps_read()</function> accepts a response, or sequence of responses, from the daemon and interprets it as though it were a query response (the return value is as for a query). This function -does a nonblocking read for data from the daemon; it returns a -count of bytes read for success, -1 with errno set on a Unix-level -read error, -1 with errno not set if the socket to the daemon has -closed, and 0 if POLL_NONBLOCK was passed to gps_stream() and no data -is yet available.</para> +does a nonblocking read for data from the daemon; it returns a count +of bytes read for success, -1 with errno set on a Unix-level read +error, -1 with errno not set if the socket to the daemon has closed, +and 0 if no data is available.</para> <para><function>gps_waiting()</function> can be used to check whether there is data from the daemon. The argument is the maximum amount of @@ -234,9 +233,7 @@ initialization of a gps session object; the other calls are methods of that object, and have the same names as the corresponding C functions. However, it is simpler just to use the session object as an iterator, as in the example given below. Resources within the session object -will be properly released when it is garbage-collected. Note one -limitation: POLL_NONBLOCK is not yet supported in Python; use the -waiting() method instead.</para> +will be properly released when it is garbage-collected.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1 id='example'><title>CODE EXAMPLE</title> |