[Chicago-talk] open3 and passing large amounts of data

[Steven Lembark]

> I've don't think threading would help with this.
> 
> Thanks. I will have to look into doing non-blocking IO then.
> 
> I am still a bit lost as to why when I was trying to duplicate it on
> the shell that and I cated the test message I was using through spamc
> it went through with out being cut off.

You can block, just not on the I/O. Use
select to write, say, 8K chunks into the
pipe and check for reads on stderr. There
are a few good packages for handling this
situation, I like Graham Barr's IO::Select.

You originally mentioned a mailserver, so
there may be some message being sent from
there that blocks the spam handler. Using
select w/ timeouts will detect this in
most cases.

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