Re: Pipes and Standard Output / Input on Windows

[Sylvain Le Gall <sylvain@le-gall.net>]

On 29-05-2008, John Whitington <john@coherentgraphics.co.uk> wrote:
> Hullo.
>
> I'm compiling OCaml command-line software with the MSVC toolchain on  
> Windows. Users have noticed two problems:
>
> (a) When output (such as the --help) is done on Windows, the help  
> doesn't all show (I fixed this by flushing stdout manually - but  
> shouldn't stdout be flushed when the process exits anyway?)
>
> (b) Chaining invocations of the tool together using pipes on Windows  
> often fails. The second process in the chain gets an End_Of_File after  
> only a few hundred bytes of data. I've confirmed the data is all being  
> output by the first process, and the first process is exiting cleanly.  
> All the open_in and open_out calls are using the _bin variant. The  
> data being sent down the pipe is a PDF file (which contains binary  
> sections).
>
> Neither of these problems occur on Linux / Mac builds - is there  
> something about windows pipes I should know?
>

I am not sure if it is related, but i have a problem with "|" command
line pipe. It seems that this way channel are not binary one... If you
happen to transmit binary data through it, you could have problem...

I detect it, by trying "output_value stdin x".

Do you think your problem is related?

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall