Re: Reading From A Pipe

[Mohammed Sameer <msameer foolab org>]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 06:23:48PM +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?

Perhaps the child needs to flush the stream ?

Cheers,

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