Hi,

I am working on a simple command line application for Linux, in order to properly understand how pipes and blocking calls interact.

blocking is different from pipes. Blocking calls can be set and unset on fds which is only relevant to vfs layer. Pipes are more of way of communication. They transmit byte by byte data without any format. The

application writes some data to stdout, before sleeping and then writing some more. I have set stdout to be unbuffered, and do an fflush before the sleep to be absolutely sure that there is no buffered data left. so you have set it to asynchronous mode and stdout is not a pipe. It is stdio FILE* pointer

When I try to pipe this data to another

application, the receiving application does not progress before the sleep is over. can you post your code

Based on my understanding of pipes, the two

applications are independent and, thus, the receiving application should not be affected by any sleeps in the producer of data. Is this incorrect, and is there a way to fix this (i.e., having blocking calls in the producer)?

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Kristian Evensen <kristian.evensen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I am working on a simple command line application for Linux, in order to properly understand how pipes and blocking calls interact. The application writes some data to stdout, before sleeping and then writing some more. I have set stdout to be unbuffered, and do an fflush before the sleep to be absolutely sure that there is no buffered data left. When I try to pipe this data to another application, the receiving application does not progress before the sleep is over. Based on my understanding of pipes, the two applications are independent and, thus, the receiving application should not be affected by any sleeps in the producer of data. Is this incorrect, and is there a way to fix this (i.e., having blocking calls in the producer)?

Thanks in advance, Kristian

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