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Re: available() always returns 0?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Payne)
Fri Jul 7 23:43:46 1995

Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 10:43:48 -0700
From: jpayne@starwave.com (Jonathan Payne)
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM

Yes, but it's overridden by FileInputStream to return the right thing.
Unfortunately, SocketInputStream doesn't override that method to do
the right thing, and so it returns 0 there all the time.  I think it's
going to be fixed for beta.

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> the method (in class InputStream):
> 
>  public int available() {
>         return 0;
>     }
> 
> 
> (obviously) always returns 0...   Has this simply not been implemented?
> if not, i guess this brings me back to how do i do a non-blocking
> read on a stream?
> 
>   I suppose its moot once i figure out how to send a thread off 
> to do the reading... hints?
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