Re: Non Blocking reads

[Jose Torre-Bueno <jtorrebueno@...>]

On Oct 4, 2013, at 11:57 PM, Jose Torre-Bueno <jtorrebueno@cox.net> wrote:

> Related to my earlier question about FIFOs, is there a way to open a file for non-blocking reads out of basic Lua.  That is with io.open?

My earlier question seems to have fallen in the bit bucket.  It was is there any way to tell whether a named fifo has data in it before reading it since if the fifo is empty the read will block until another process puts something into the fifo.