2018-04-11 19:08 GMT+02:00 Alistair Grant <akgrant0...@gmail.com>:
> Hi Sven, > > On 11 April 2018 at 18:53, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: > > Something is off (and/or I am getting crazy, probably both). > > > > $ ./pharo --headless Pharo.image eval '(FileStream stdin binary; next: > 3)' > > 123 > > #[49] > > > > ?? > > > > This should return #[49 50 51] AFAIK. > > I haven't checked properly, but I can take a guess at this... > > The file read primitive in FilePlugin tries to read from stdin 1 > character at a time (presumably to get around the line buffering that > is done, but I haven't gone through the history. At one time I think > it modified the terminal settings, but that code is #if'd out). For > all other streams it attempts to read the requested number of > characters. > > StandardFileStream>>readInto:startingAt:count: assumes that > primitiveFileRead will always attempt to read count bytes, but it > actually only attempts to read 1. > > Cheers, > Alistair > > https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/issues/150
