make network I/O non-blocking

[fictorial]

Have you considered making the read/writes non-blocking?

I'd love to be able to use this in a C-based project but it cannot block. I know Redis is fast but still... :)

Something as simple as select(2) would work for readability/writability testing since there's just the one client socket.

Thoughts?

[pietern]

In the new and revamped hiredis, a non-blocking context can be created using redisConnectNonBlock. After that, knowing when to read(2) and write(2) is up to you.