freeprocess lag

I'm writing alot of data to a pipestream to another process, reading it by using stdio (using a new TCStandardIO object).

Should I be flushing the pipestream after writing data?

Since there is no readavail for TCStandardIO how can I be sure the data is already buffered before reading?

I keep getting a TStreamReadException if I don't put a huge delay before trying to read data from TCStandardIO.

I created a new TCStandardIO object because the existing StandardIOStream didn't work on small data tests using read/write int and string. The data is being encrypted so I couldn't use read/write line, because the encryption could generate a return char.

you should flush your writes at the end of every packet similar to the print function declared in brl.standardio.standardio.bmx.

in windows you can hook up stdio with freeprocess like so

Strict

Local io:TPipeStream

Local stdin=GetStdHandle(-10)
Local stdout=GetStdHandle(-11)


io=TPipeStream.Create( stdin,stdout )

io.Write("hello".toCString(),5)
io.Flush

io.Close

End

just crashed maxide monitoring stdin so possibly kind of dangerous way of operating.

under osx/linux i think you can use stdin_ stdout_ global handles instead

Hmm.. thats interesting.

Where is GetStdHandle defined?

Somewhere in pub.win32 i think, i found it on msdn and it just worked...