[Gambas-user] Opening Pipes (avoiding lockup)

[Bruce Steers]

Hi Benoit.
Can you tell me if the pipe blocking mode is only changed when using
"Watch" or blocking has been stopped altogether.
(I wish to know for the wiki info)

Thank you :)

On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 at 18:51, Benoît Minisini <g4mba5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Le 04/10/2020 à 14:04, Bruce Steers a écrit :
> >
> > I don't think this post even warrants a reply now as I was thinking i
> > was doing something wrong when opening a pipe but it seems not, the pipe
> > did lock and now it doesn't so problem solved in that respect. (Nice one
> > Benoit)
> > It just leaves a backward compatibility issue that with the echo trick
> > i've used resolves the issue i guess.
> >
> > Cheers all
> > Bruce Steers
> >
>
> You did something wrong actually, because the old behaviour was the
> default one provided by Linux.
>
> It's only by playing with pipes in 3.14.90 that I noticed the default
> behaviour was not useful, so I dropped it to the current one.
>
> Note that your trick is welcome for older versions. It could be a notice
> in the wiki!
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini
>
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