On Dec 4, 2006, at 5:24 AM, Mark Smith wrote:
There are some shell commands (openssl sha1, for example) that take
their arguments from stdin or a file, but not the command line.
While it's easy to write data to a file and pass the filepath to
the shell, it's not very efficient if you want to do it many times
in succession.
What you want is process i/o. See 'open process' etc.
There are some problems. You have to do a half-close. That is, you
need to close the pipe to the tool without closing the pipe from the
tool.
Revolution tries to do a half-close with a a control character (04,
EOT, Control-D), but that doesn't work well.
On OS X you cannot do a half-close with binary. This was done to fix
a concern (bz 1770).
On OS X this does do a half-close with text mode, but there seems to
be something fishy with the line ends in text mode. Anybody know
what is wrong with the line ends in this case? This needs a bz but
I'm not sure what is up. I've tried this with sort and things don't
get sorted.
On XP it gets a little mixed up with ^X or ^Z, I forgot which. That
is, Rev thinks it closed the pipe for ^D, but the application thinks
it is still open. Maybe you can send ^X^Z^D and something will
happen. I have some notes someplace but I don't think they were
enough to bugzilla.
As you can see, I'm not clear on this. We do need a half close
command for open process and open socket.
If the tool reads a fixed number of lines or characters, you might be
OK. You don't have to do the half close.
I do have some other bugs reported on process I/O and some bugs that
are not ready for bz on process I/O.
I'd go with the file for the input with shell() for now. If the
output is binary, then you should use a file for output, too, on
Windows. I have not had a problem with binary output on OS X.
Note that passwords are often not input with stdin even though they
look like it.
Dar
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