Re: Reading From A Pipe

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 18:23 +0000, pub wrote:
>  
> I am trying to read a line from a pipe. After several different tests,
> I get the same results.
> The child is a program that sends 8 lines up the pipe to the Gtkmm
> application.
> 
> The first line is read and displayed. Only one line!
> 
> The second time, 8 more lines are sent up the pipe.
> I get the 7 remaining lines from the first group of lines plus only
> the first line of the second group. 8 lines total.
> 
> Then 8 more lines are displayed in the same pattern, 7 from the
> preceeding group and only the first from the new group.
> This pattern continues until the child stops sending.
> 
> It seems like the receive end of the pipe does not show that there is
> remaining lines of data.
> 
> Can someone help? 

What API specifically are you having trouble with?

-- 
José