Re: [Chicken-users] large amount of data will break open-pipe

[felix winkelmann]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Lui Fungsin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is this a known limitation (similar to max string size of 0x00ffffff)?
>
>  I use pipe to connect through multiple processes (like grep / sort
>  /uniq,etc) and it is very handy.
>
>  I'm hoping that this is a bug and not a limitation...
>
>  Try the following code, enter 1500 is OK but if you enter 2000, the
>  program will abort with a broken pipe.
>

Hi, Fungsin!

Sorry for the overly late reply. I cannot reproduce this. Do you run
this code interpreted or compiled? Do I have to press any particular
key to provoke the sigpipe?


cheers,
felix