From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2012-03-13T04:16:50+09:00
Subject: Re: How do I properly read from a pipe?

Albert Schlef wrote in post #1051173:
> Lars Mai wrote in post #1051172:
>>> So how do I let the programs I'm piping to think that there's no more
>>> input?
>>
>> Not sure about the EOF, but I think you need to use IO#close_write
>> instead of IO#close.
>
> Thanks, it now works!
>
> (I need to refresh my memory with Richard Stevens' Unix book...)

:-)  There's one more thing I would do: put the writing into a separate 
thread.  If buffers are not sufficiently large enough your version 
deadlocks.

Kind regards

robert

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