I cannot really imagine that any size returned by fstat for a fifo, might have any sense. Anyhow, both on NetBSD and Linux, sb.st_size for FIFOs returns 0. Is there any reason why tmux should not read to EOF? There is nothing particularly terrible in having to write to a file on disk but it is not what unix users are used to, i.e. to not distinguish between files and pipes. I found the loadb pasteb functionality very useful and I think that being able to pipe into the buffer would be even more convenient. Whichever your choice, thank you for your attention and your work, I use tmux almost everyday Fulvio At Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:50:34 +0000, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > > cat reads the file until EOF, tmux checks the file size and then reads that > amount. > > Check what fstat() is returning for the size in cmd-load-buffer.c and see if > it > matches what you expect. > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 01:57:54AM +0100, Fulvio Ciriaco wrote: > > Please would you explain it better to me? > > a. does this work on openbsd? > > b. (mkfifo fifo; echo ttttest > fifo; cat fifo) > > gives the obvious result and no side effect, how is (tmux loadb fifo) > > different? Also, these are quite busy machines, some have more recent > > software and some older, and quite a lot of > > applications use fifos without raising issues. > > c. I will try to inject debugging code into the load-buffer responsible > > functions, any good advice easing the work? > > Fulvio > > At Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:25:11 +0000, > > Nicholas Marriott wrote: > > > > > > Dunno. Perhaps fstat doesn't return a sane size for FIFOs. You'd have to > > > add > > > some debugging to find out what is going on. > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:06:05PM +0100, Fulvio Ciriaco wrote: > > > > Hallo, > > > > I tried the following on different OSes: > > > > #tmux setb "echo 1" > > > > #mkfifo test > > > > #echo echo 2 > test & > > > > #tmux loadb test > > > > On NetBSD: does nothing > > > > #tmux showb > > > > echo 1 > > > > On Linux: empties buffer and creates all sorts of problems > > > > (broken pipe, killed shell) > > > > tmux showb > > > > > > > > > > > > My questions: > > > > Why does it not work? > > > > What does it do on linux? > > > > Fulvio > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as > > > > DTrace, > > > > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW > > > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > tmux-users mailing list > > > > tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
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