Re: sys:open-pipe / closing just one direction (revisited)

Just pinging this in hopes that someone has an answer that doesn't
involve piping from echo…

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Joshua TAYLOR <tayloj@cs.rpi.edu> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Back in February of 2005 I had a situation where it would have been
> very handy to be able to close just one side of a bidirectional stream
> that was created by sys:open-pipe.  It didn't seem possible then,
> though Edi Weitz had a handy little workaround.  It's now 4 and a half
> years later — has any progress been made on this front?
>
> It's roughly the same situation; I have a process that wants to have
> its input stream closed before I can read any of the processes output,
> but I can't close the bidirectional stream yet, because I still need
> to read from it.
>
> The docs don't look like anything's different, but I'm hoping maybe
> someone's figured out something in the meantime, or that maybe the
> docs just missed an update…
>
> //JT
>
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> =====================
> Joshua Taylor
> tayloj@cs.rpi.edu, jtaylor@alum.rpi.edu
>
> "A lot of good things went down one time,
>  back in the goodle days."
>    John Hartford
>



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Joshua Taylor
tayloj@cs.rpi.edu, jtaylor@alum.rpi.edu

"A lot of good things went down one time,
  back in the goodle days."
    John Hartford