zero - Man Page
Create and manipulate zero channels
Synopsis
package require Tcl
package require memchan
zero
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.
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
Keywords
channel, i/o, in-memory channel, null, zero
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2004 Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>