From: Lawrence Oluyede <raims@...>
Date: 2005-05-14T07:50:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Deal with large inputs in a popen (was Re: Get back data from a child (with exec))

Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@misfiring.net> writes:

> You need to send the data in blocks lequal to the pipe buffer size.
> Something like pipe.write(input.read(4096)) until input.eof?

Tried send data line by line but it still hangs :(

> Btw, maybe popened IOs should do this automatically under covers?

I think it does but my code works behind a Rails/cgi app and it doesn't work.
I'm planning to write a Ruby code replacement for the external process.

Thanks anyway

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Lawrence
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