Isn't it possible to read from stdin into a buffer in memory, then determine it's size, and then go over the data in memory?
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Matthias Kramm <kr...@quiss.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 03:30:20PM +0300, Romi Kuntsman <rmk...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I'm handling a SWF file in memory in my program, and would like to pass > the > > file to swfdump and read the output. > > How can this be done without writing it to a temporary file on disk and > > then passing the filename as parameter, for example using a pipe or > similar > > option? > > Afraid that a temporary file is the only way to do this- > in its current implementation, swfdump reads the file twice- once > to determine the file type, and a second time to actually parse, > so it can't process a stdin stream for that very reason. > > Matthias > > --------------- > SWFTools-common is a self-managed list. To subscribe/unsubscribe, or amend > an existing subscription, please kindly point your favourite web browser > at:<http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/swftools-common> >
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