[Gambas-user] Pipe doesn't receive contents

[Benoît Minisini]

> > Trying the example code for pipes, I only get a waiting prompt, and then
> > it jumps out of the loop.
> > 
> > I added two little statements to have some output:
> > 
> > DIM hFile AS File
> > DIM sLine AS String
> > 
> > hFile = PIPE "/tmp/FIFO1" FOR INPUT
> > 
> > PRINT "Now let's start:"
> > 
> > WHILE NOT Eof(hFile)
> > 
> >    LINE INPUT #hFile, sLine
> >    PRINT sLine
> > 
> > WEND
> > 
> > PRINT "That's it."
> > 
> > When I start this, it prints the start message and waits. It's in a
> > Konsole window within KDE. I open another terminal and type
> > 
> > ls > /tmp/FIFO1
> > 
> > Instead of giving the file list, it just prints the finish message and
> > quits.
> > 
> > Did I do something wrong?
> > 
> > Rolf
> 
> I just tried, and it works with "ls -la > /tmp/FIFO1", but not with "ls >
> /tmp/FIFO1", as you described. Very strange...

It is actually random: sometimes it works as expected, sometimes Eof(hFile) 
returns True the first time it is called, and the pipe is not read. Very 
strange yet!

-- 
Benoît Minisini