[plt-scheme] subprocess and wait

On 26/02/06, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> At Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:38:42 +0000, "Paulo J. Matos" wrote:
> > I've have created a program in PLT Scheme, whose main objective is to
> > gather a bunch of other programs and run them accordingly a specified
> > algorithm which depends on their output. To run them I create a
> > subprocess and then right after I do a subprocess-wait.
> > After waiting returns I'll parse the huge output in search for a specific
> > token.
>
> The buffer between MzScheme and the subprocess's stdout has a limited
> size. If you don't read anything from subprocess's stdout, then the
> subprocess will eventually not be able to write any more data, so it
> will pause. Is that the problem?
>

Tha's very probably it then.

Thanks for the input. I'll follow your suggestions and I hopefully
everything will work! :)

Thanks,

Paulo Matos

> If so, you need to read all the data from the subprocess's stdout as
> its running, or you need to redirect the subprocess's stdout to a port
> that holds arbitrary amounts of data. For example, you might call
> `make-pipe' (with no arguments or with #f for the `limit-k' argument),
> and use the resulting output port for the subprocess's stdout; since
> the pipe's buffer is not limited, it will catch all of the subprocess's
> data, and you can read it later.
>
> Matthew
>
>


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