Re: |& loses data (buffering bug?)

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:43:11 +0100
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2004-02-13 14:33:59 +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > Have you tried typing `F' in less? It could be the output is jerky
> > and less hasn't actually read to the end of the file.
> 
> This isn't related to the problem. 

Well, it's certainly *related*, unless I'm really missing the point.  Do
you mean the lines that are missing aren't at the end?

> Anyway, I've tried and this doesn't solve anything, e.g.

I don't understand what this example means.  Where is the data missing here?

Can you get the same effect with e.g.

  perl -e 'open STDERR, ">&STDOUT";
  open STDIN, "cvs status|";

  exec "less";'

which doesn't involve zsh at all?

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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