Re: piping from external program not working..

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Friday, June 4, 2004, at 03:18 PM, Jan Hudec wrote:

> I really wish perl IO descriptors had a 'buffer' method. It would 
> return the internal buffer as a (read-only) string. Then we could have 
> Glib::IO watchers properly generating 'in' event when the perlio 
> descriptor (not the underlying file) have some data to read!

the old gtk-perl used some interesting MAGIC vtable tricks to allow 
subs to be called whenever a scalar is changed.  perhaps we should 
modify Glib::IO::add_watch() to use a similar mechanism?

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