On 18Oct2014 18:42, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote:
Once the "nc" process actually write()s the data to its standard
output (i.e. desriptor 1, not the "stdout" FILE*)
I'm not sure why you're excluding stdout, but even if nc is using
filedes 1 instead of FILE * stdout, isn't it kind of irrelevant?
On further reflection, isn't it stdio that does the varied buffering,
and filedes 1 that's always unbuffered? IOW, the OP might wish nc was
using 1, but it probably can't be given what they're seeing.
Traditionally, fd 1 (standard output, _generally_ associated with FILE
*stdout), gets stdio buffering; line buffered for a terminal, block buffered
otherwise. fd 2 (standard error, _generally_ associated with FILE *stderr) gets
an unbuffered stdio stream by default.
However, nc may well be behaving like "tail -f": always unbuffered.
However, as I recall the OP seemed to want to "flush" the stream from nc to
python. Even if nc itself does no buffering (handing data to the OS as soon as
received, highly desirable for a tool like nc), the OS keeps a buffer for the
pipeline between nc and python, and python itself keeps a buffer for sys.stdin.
Both of those are candidates for some kind of flush/discard. IF (a big IF) that
is what the OP really needs.
Have we heard anything from the OP since this discussion took off?
I think we need to better understand his/her use case.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
Do you even know anything about perl? - AC replying to Tom Christiansen post
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