zero - Create and manipulate zero channels
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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2004 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Memory channels 2.2 zero(3tcl)
Description
The command described here is only available in a not-yet released version of the package. Use the CVS to
get the sources.
zero creates a zero channel which absorbs everything written into it. Reading from a zero channel will
return the requested number of null bytes. These channels are essentially Tcl-specific variants of
the zero device for unixoid operating systems (/dev/zero). Transferring the generated channel
between interpreters is possible but does not make much sense.
Keywords
channel, i/o, in-memory channel, null, zero
Name
zero - Create and manipulate zero channels
Options
Memory channels created by zero provide one additional option to set or query.
-delay?milliseconds?
A zero channel is always writable and readable. This means that all fileevent-handlers will fire
continuously. To avoid starvation of other event sources the events raised by this channel type
have a configurable delay. This option is set in milliseconds and defaults to 5.
See Also
fifo, fifo2, memchan, null, random
Synopsis
package require Tcl
package require memchanzero
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