On Jul 28, 2009, at 21:14 , Magicloud Magiclouds wrote:
(or_, ow_) <- createPipe
or <- fdToHandle or_
ow <- fdToHandle ow_
hSetBuffering ow LineBuffering
hSetBuffering or LineBuffering
h <- runProcess cmd [] Nothing Nothing Nothing (Just ow) Nothing
 In the cmd process, the ow is not LineBuffering....

Buffering is not an attribute of a filehandle, but of the I/O library. There is no way for you to tell cmd how you want it to buffer, unless it has an option to do so (cat -u, tcpdump -l, etc.), although you can hint by using a pty instead of a pipe: many programs will switch to line buffering in that case, some will go unbuffered; usually, a pipe, FIFO, or ordinary file will be block buffered.

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