Re: process synchronization

["Hubert Sokolowski" <h sokolowski wsisiz edu pl>]

> I suggest you make a separate thread that does all the
> R/W I/O process with g_thread_init() &
> g_thread_create(). Then well you must have a scenario
> like this
>
>   dd if=hello | gzip
>
> And if you are using the same thread to write into
> gzip's stdin, and then reading out of stdout, then I
> guess do it in two different threads. Might work.

my problem was that I didn't set non-blocking property to gzip's stdin
and gzip's stdout. Now it works fine, I get almost the same results as when
doing it from a shell by
dd if=file | gzip -c > file.gz

greetings
hs