Re: popen read and write?

[gary ng <garyng2000@...>]

--- Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de> wrote:
> And how do you "peek" into stdio's input buffer?
> 
would io.stdin:read('*a') a way to peek ? As my
understanding is that '*a' is effectively
non-blocking(just return as much as there). Or may be
not if there is nothing to read(which would be
blocked) ? 

But that still don't solve the write() can be
blocking.

So I still think in lua, COPAS(effectively cooperative
multithreading as you said) is the natural way to have
deadlock free bi-directional communication for things
like popen2.


       
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