caml-list - the Caml user's mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Johan Grande <johan.grande@ens-cachan.org>
To: oliver <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
Cc: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Child process doesn't terminate
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 01:10:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5330C95A.4050506@ens-cachan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140324225558.GA13355@siouxsie>

Le 24/03/2014 23:55, oliver a écrit :
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 07:23:05PM +0100, Johan Grande wrote:
>> In the following program, the child process "cat" never terminates.
>> I don't understand why; can anyone tell me?
>>
>> [...]
>
> With
>
>    create_process "/bin/cat" [| "cat"; "/etc/passwd" |]
>
> cat would terminate after cat'ing the file,
> otherwise it reads from input until Ctrl-D arrives,
> before printing the data and then terminates.

Yes, but if I'm not mistaken I can't just send Ctrl+D to the process. 
The equivalent here is to close the channel; Gerd pointed out how to do 
this properly.

-- 
Johan


      reply	other threads:[~2014-03-25  0:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-24 18:23 Johan Grande
2014-03-24 21:28 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2014-03-24 23:59   ` Johan Grande
2014-03-24 22:55 ` oliver
2014-03-25  0:10   ` Johan Grande [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=5330C95A.4050506@ens-cachan.org \
    --to=johan.grande@ens-cachan.org \
    --cc=caml-list@inria.fr \
    --cc=oliver@first.in-berlin.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).