From: Rainer Weikusat on
John Kelly <jak(a)isp2dial.com> writes:
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:49:57 -0500, "Slawomir L." <sl(a)paramay.com>
> wrote:
>
>>if reading a man-page makes you "nevertheless usually rather" do
>>something, you probably find it inconclusive.
>
> Without pompous bombast what would usenet be.

Probably a nicer place. The thing is that throughput is going to be
higher if the program reads available data as soon as possible, that
is, without querying if data is now available until the kernel has
indicated that it cannot presently provide any.