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On 11/27/13, 4:57 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Okay, I thought this was an intentional 'all or nothing' interface -
> but looking at the readn() users they can tolerate partial results
> just fine.

I believe that is the intent -- an all or nothing interface.

David