What do you recommend after the task finishes? I have tried [[outPipe 
fileHandleForReading] readDataToEndOfFile] after the task finishes and it 
doesn't seem to improve. Can you maybe give me an example of how to do this 
right?

On Jul 31, 2012, at 6:01 PM, Wim Lewis <w...@omnigroup.com> wrote:

> I haven't looked at the code you posted, but is it possible that you're 
> reading from the NSPipe in such a way that you're mixing up the "end-of-file" 
> indication with the "no more data is available right now, but may arrive 
> later" indication? That's a common reason for this kind of problem.
> 
> IIRC, NSPipe simply wraps a Unix pipe, which will hold unread data even after 
> the writer closes its end of the pipe (that is, the writer can write some 
> data and exit before the reader reads anything, and the reader will still get 
> all the data followed by EOF).

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