On 10/17/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wrote a shell script test.sh :
>
> while true
> do
> printf "test\n"
> sleep 1
> done
>
> Then I wrote a C program test.c that does exactly the same :
>
> test.c
> int main(void)
> {
> while(1)
> {
> printf ("test\n");
> sleep(1);
> }
> }
>
>
> ./test.sh | dzen2 -p --> works
> ./test | dzen2 -p --> doesn't work (nothing in the dzen bar)
>
>
> Any help appreciated..
>
Have you tried forcing line buffering on stdout in the C program?
::
int main(void)
{
setvbuf(stdout, NULL, _IOLBF, 1024);
while(1)
{
printf ("test\n");
sleep(1);
}
}
More on C buffering:
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Controlling-Buffering.html
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Riccardo
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