[Chicago-talk] How to make readline <> block on pipe.

[Jon Amundsen]

Hi All!

Does anyone know how to make the <> operator or readline block until there is data?  I am trying to read from a pipe, and would like it to block until more data arrives.

Here is a simple example:


open(APIPE, "<./pipe") || die $! ;	### the open *does* block

while(1) {

	my $line = <APIPE> ;		### if there's nothing on the pipe this doesn't wait.
	print "line is: ", $line, "\n" ;
	sleep 1 ;			### just so it doesn't spin too fast during testing

}


I've tried using IO::File also and the ->blocking() method, but as far as I can tell it behaves the same.  Any help is really appreciated.

-- 

Jon Amundsen
jamundsen at jamundsen.dyndns.org

A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a
"Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
                -- Mahatma Gandhi
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