Method Stdio.Buffer()->input_from()

Method input_from

int(-1..) input_from(Stdio.Stream f, int|void nbytes)

Description

Read data from f into this buffer. If nbytes is not specified, read until there is no more data to read (currently).

Returns the amount of data that was read, or -1 on read error.

Note

Please note that this funcition will read all data from the filedescriptor unless it's set to be non-blocking.