From: Phillip Gawlowski <pg@...>
Date: 2010-01-08T03:25:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Non-blocking communication between Ruby processes

On 07.01.2010 18:58, I�aki Baz Castillo wrote:

> Hummm, I have a reader process and a writer process.
> The wirter process writes into the pipe file.
> If I kill the reader process then the writer process remains writting in the
> pipe and the data is stored (in the filesystem?).
>
> So there is the leaking problem... I must investigate it a bit more...

pipe.write unless pipe.full?

i.e. check if your pipe hits a set limit on disk, and generate an 
exception if the pipe_file reaches (or is close to reaching) the limit.

You could then buffer the data to be written until an additional (or 
new) reading thread has started.

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Phillip Gawlowski