On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 17:51, Rouan van Dalen <rvda...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> If I try to su the runShell function with the following command, it simply > blocks forever: > > git --no-pager blame <your git file here> > > but if I do: > > git status > > The runShell function works as expected. Can someone shed some light on > why the 'git blame' command blocks? Interrestingly enough, if I > You're trying to run the command and then collect all the output afterward; this requires the OS to buffer potentially very large amounts of data, whereas most OSes cache only a very small amount over a pipe. You will need to read the data as the command runs to avoid blocking, then close the process once you have read EOF. -- brandon s allbery allber...@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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