pipe through external process?

[Jean-Baptiste Robertson]

Hi,

The POSIX functions you may want to try are open2 and open3.
Much trouble come from the Unix buffering : as you can't force
autoflushed output from the command, you'll simply have a deadlock 99%
of the time.
A solution (used in scsh, I think) is to send the stdout in a file and
then
to read the file. 

HTH
jb


John Meacham wrote:
> 
> I am trying to implement a function which takes a string, pipes it
> through an external command and returns the stdout of teh command
> utilizing the Posix library and ghc.
> 
> first of all, if someone has this handy code tidbit already written then
> feel free to send it to me. the other thing is that I cannot figure out
> how to get data into and out of the process. I can create a pipe which
> returns a pair of Fd's but then i cannot pass these into runProcess
> since it expects handles. also I have no ability to wait for the
> termination of the command that runProcess starts...
> 
> it is always possible i am just overlooking a few key functions in Posix...
> 
>         John
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