[Coldstuff] suspending tasks

[coldstuff@cold.org]

On Wed, 24 July 2002, Bruce Mitchener wrote

> Don't use cwritef() or whatever it was that dumps the file to the 
> connection in one shot.  Open the file, read from it, write the data to 
> the network, and loop on that with a pause() in there.  You'll have to 
> come up with what you think is a good chunksize to write each iteration 
> through the loop.

It's reading the file that's slow, not writing to the connection.

(Or, does sending a paragraph to a 300-baud modem cause immense systemwide
lag!?)

This is all very core-specific, but your code might look something like this:

blocksize = 8192;
file = $file_system.fopen(filename);
while(!file.feof()) {
  pause();
  connection.cwrite(file.fread(blocksize));
}

Of course, it would be very nice to have a pause-implied fread() and
cwritef(), along with the horrible $network.hostname().

- Kipp