open-input-pipe messes with output buffers

open-input-pipe messes with output buffers

[Neale Pickett]

I'm experiencing some strange behavior using open-input-pipe while
having open output ports.  It seems like whenever I call
open-input-pipe, whatever's in the output buffer gets re-buffered, so I
get an additional copy in the output port.

For example, this guile program:

  (use-modules (ice-9 popen))

  (let ((outp (open-output-file "goo")))
    (display "foobie" outp)
    (newline outp)
    ;;(flush-all-ports)
    (let ((jh (open-input-pipe "/bin/ls")))
      (display (read-line jh) outp)
      (newline outp))
    (display "shoobie" outp)
    (newline outp))

Produces this in the file "goo":

  foobie
  foobie
  a.py
  shoobie

Uncommenting the (flush-all-ports) line does what I expected with it
commented:

  foobie
  a.py
  shoobie

Is this the desired behavior?  It's pretty confusing to me, but I've only
been using guile for a month :)

Thanks

Neale


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Re: open-input-pipe messes with output buffers

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

   From: Neale Pickett <neale@woozle.org>
   Date: 29 Aug 2002 11:28:39 -0700

   [rebuffering weirdness w/ popen + test case]

   Is this the desired behavior?

older versions of guile did not separate fdes and port handling properly
when doing pipe operations.  guile-1.4.1.8 DTRT, for example.  to try:

 wget http://www.glug.org/tmp/2002-08/guile-1.4.1.8.tar.gz
 tar xzf guile-1.4.1.8.tar.gz
 cd guile-1.4.1.8 && ./configure --prefix /tmp/a/b/c && make install
 alias guile=/tmp/a/b/c/bin/guile

i believe 1.5.x works too, but i don't recommend that for other reasons.

thi


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