Ben, I noticed this line in the announcement for 0.8.10
* unix: put child process stdio fds in blocking mode (Ben Noordhuis) Does that by any chance address this issue? I continue to struggle with it. Thanks, Shawn On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:07 PM, dhruvbird <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> So, I'm still trying to understand the implications of this change. Suppose >> I spawn "cat" and write to the stdin of the spawned process, then will the >> "cat" process not be able to read it? >> >> var cat = spawn('cat'); >> cat.stdin.write('Foo Bar'); >> cat.stdout.on('data', function(d) { console.log("Child Says:", String(d); >> }); >> >> Will this do what I expect it to? > > Yes. It's only when the child process explicitly opens /dev/stdin (or > /dev/stdout) that it doesn't work. > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
