Re: Glib::IO watcher unbuffered? [SOLUTION]

[zentara <zentara1 sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:19:58 +0100
"Philipp E. Letschert" <phil uni-koblenz de> wrote:

> > > > I would like to have unbuffered output processing from an external command
> > > > (command prints a line, sleeps, prints a line, sleeps ...):
>
> It is common behaviour that the C library uses isatty(3) to decide if stdout
> is line-buffered or block-buffered. When reading from a pipe to an external
> command the output is block-buffered, which explains the reported behaviour.
>
> Solution is using a pseudo-terminal and connect the watcher to it, following is
> a complete example:
>
> use Glib;
> use IO::Pty;
> HTH, Phil

Thanks for posting that, its a gem. :-)
zentara

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