Re: Re: Reading From A Pipe

[Lyle Underwood <lyleunderwood gmail com>]

Every single time you write to this list I think that the reds are
trying to recruit me, until I see that it's a gtkmm-list message.

On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 23:53 +0000, american communist party gmail com
wrote:
> On May 11, 2010 1:33pm, pub <pub inbox hughes net> wrote:
> > I am using pipes with file descriptors. How can the pipe be flushed?
> 
> File descriptors don't need flushing since there's no buffering
> going on. If you write a single byte to a pipe it should be available
> immediately at the other end. Only if you have mapped a file
> descriptor to a file pointer using fdopen() and you then use C
> standard I/O functions you would need to consider buffering, 
> but then the usual fflush() will do the job.
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