On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 13:37 -0500, Thomas Harning wrote: > On Nov 6, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Richard Jones wrote: > > > ...... > > i see: > > Read 5 bytes from 0:'12345' Read 0 bytes from 0:'' Read 0 bytes from > > 0:'' Read 0 bytes from 0:'' ... > > > > And the callback keeps firing forever, even tho I'm not sending any > > more > > data. I can't find anything in the docs about having to acknowledge > > events or dismiss them once fired or anything - what am i missing?
> The successful read of zero bytes indicates end-of-stream. Ah, so the < redirection in the shell is sending eof.. If i use: tail -f fifo | ./prog i'm able to write multiple times to the fifo, which does what i want as tail -f doesnt pass on eof.. that's doing what i want now. thanks, RJ _______________________________________________ Libevent-users mailing list Libevent-users@monkey.org http://monkeymail.org/mailman/listinfo/libevent-users
