Clueless: piping between 2 non-python processes

[Andrew Bennetts]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 07:44:27PM -0000, Donn Cave wrote:
> 
> [... re deadlock potential in 2 way piping ]
> 
> | If buffering is a problem, the processes comminicating via pipes are welcome
> | to call fflush() or change their I/O library's buffer settings as needed.
> | This isn't significantly different to the problems you can encounter with
> | TCP sockets, unless I'm misunderstanding you.
> 
> The reason it's a common problem is that it normally works through
> the standard UNIX in/out/err system, which is predicated on disk files
> or a simple producer/consumer pipe line.  That assumption is reflected
> in how the applications behave, and it's relatively unusual to be able
> to do anything about that.

I'm not sure what you mean... is it "applications that aren't designed for 2
way piping don't handle it reliably"?

-Andrew.