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null(n) null(n) ______________________________________________________________________________ NAME null - Create and manipulate null channels SYNOPSIS package require Tcl package require memchan null ______________________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION The command described here is only available in a not-yet released ver- sion of the package. Use the CVS to get the sources. null creates a null channel which absorbs everything written into it. Reading from it is not possible, or rather will always return zero bytes. These channels are essentially Tcl-specific variants of the null device for unixoid operating systems (/dev/null). Transferring the generated channel between interpreters is pos- sible but does not make much sense. OPTIONS Memory channels created by null provide one additional option to set or query. -delay ?milliseconds? A null channel is always writable and readable. This means that all fileevent-handlers will fire continuously. To avoid starva- tion of other event sources the events raised by this channel type have a configurable delay. This option is set in millisec- onds and defaults to 5. A null channel is always writable and never readable. This means that a writable fileevent-handler will fire continuously and a readable fileevent-handler never at all. The exception to the latter is only the destruction of the channel which will cause the delivery of an eof event to a readable handler. SEE ALSO fifo, fifo2, memchan, random, zero KEYWORDS channel, i/o, in-memory channel, null COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1996-2003 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> Memory channels 2.2 null(n)
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