>>>>> "janky" == Stefan Jankowski
>>>>> <dave.null@spambucket.informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Sperber [Mr Preprocessor]
>>>>> <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
Michael> The trivial question is whether you're sure that your
Michael> helper program always flushes its output to point where a
Michael> complete S-expression results.
janky> Is this a problem? Wouldn't (read) block anyway until it has read a
janky> complete sexp?
It would, but I was wondering whether a confusion between blocking and
EOF could be the result of what you're seeing.
janky> My understanding is that (read) treats its input as a simple stream of
janky> octets without regard to linebreaks (other than treating them as
janky> whitespace) or blocking in OS-level reads; or am I missing something?
No, you're correct.
So, again, it would be helpful to see (at least some of) your code,
specifically concerning the way you process pipes are connected.
--
Cheers =8-} Mike
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