From: cs5b@...
Date: 2006-09-30T17:45:20+09:00
Subject: Re: pipe binary data

Jordan, some more digging revealed this was related to a parsing bug in
REXML. It somehow didnt recognize a closing tag...so it wasnt related
to the pipe afterall.
thanks-
christian

MonkeeSage wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> I'm no expert by any means, but this sounds odd to me -- more like
> something is broken with your scripts rather than the piping. The
> reason I say so is because I can pipe /dev/random and /dev/dsp to a
> file without any problem; you'd think that I'd hit the same problem at
> some point given the (pseudo-)random nature of those pipes; but I never
> have.
> 
> Regards,
> Jordan