Your reply shows almost exactly how I did it at first!
However, I now realise that it failed to work because I hadn't imported
streams, as your snippet shows, so thanks for that.
The import means that it now builds and runs. It does crash though, so I'll
have to look into that, but it is a star
You cannot use the handles with the file IO and expect things to work. osproc
gives you `inputStream()` and `outputStream()` for a reason.
import osproc, streams
...
for i in 0..processes.high:
var process = startProcess(config.subcommand,
I can now get a variation to compile; but it doesn't actually work -- it
crashes at runtime:
Traceback (most recent call last)
searchpdfscmd.nim(86)searchpdfscmd
searchpdfscmd.nim(82)main
searchpdfscmd.nim(50)doJobs
osproc.nim(240) inputHandle
Is `$` for Stream already implemented? cmiiw, I don't find the `$` for Stream
in any lib.
I want to start a bunch of subprocesses and write some lines to each of them
with some configuration data, then write filenames to them to process, and then
tell them there's no more work to do. Then I want to gather any results they
produce. The key function is this:
proc doJobs(
