At 09:24 AM 4/30/2001 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>"Craig A. Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I think this is a reproducer for the problem that occasionally
> > inserts spurious carriage returns into what should be one line of
> > output in the test suite. It appears to be a function of pipe buffer
> > size. If the mailbox buffer for a pipe fills up, reading EOF from
> > the pipe causes a carriage return to get inserted in the stream.
>
>Well, much of this is from the interaction between the CRTL and
>mailboxes. There's a limit to what we can do to wedge our fixes in
>between those two. There's a definite limit to what I'm willing to do
>to rewrite the CRTL i/o library.
Would it be better, then, to drop to $QIO calls for this then? We could
wedge that in reasonably easily, as we do have a goodly amount of control
at this level.
Dan
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