[erlang-questions] open_port() on FD 0,1 problems

[Daniel Goertzen]

Snooping through the R14A source code shows that fd_driver on Windows is
hardcoded to perform CR translation.  Boo!  Will post details to the bug
list and maybe try for a patch if I can get Erlang compiling on Windows.

Dan.

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Daniel Goertzen <daniel.goertzen@REDACTED
> wrote:

> Thanks!  That helps a lot.
>
> New issue is that erl.exe is translating incoming 0x0d bytes to 0x0a.
>  Windows line-end conversions, grumble, grumble.  Is there a nice way to
> turn that off?  Or am I at a dead-end?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Hynek Vychodil <hynek@REDACTED>wrote:
>
>> I don't know how on Windows but try -noinput parameter.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Daniel Goertzen
>> <daniel.goertzen@REDACTED> wrote:
>> > I am trying to operate an Erlang Port for stdin and stdout
>> > [open_port({fd,0,1}...].  The program below is to receive two integers,
>> > multiply them, and write the result. Every other request vanishes
>> without a
>> > reply, and I don't know why.  Details:
>> >
>> > - Windows 7 64 bit.
>> > - Erlang launched with "-noshell -s erlang_rpc_benchmark"
>> > - I have to wait a moment after launching erlang before sending it data,
>> or
>> > I definitely get dataloss.
>> > - Exactly every other packet gets lost, starting with the first one.
>> > - The byte counters on Task Manager show that the request is getting to
>> > erl.exe, but not to my code.
>> > - I've added debug code to verify that there are no other messages
>> appearing
>> > at my receive expression (not currently in code below).
>> > - I wrote a Python version of this program, and it worked without issue.
>> >
>> >
>> > Background:  I plan to write a Python GUI program with an Erlang child
>> > process.  The test program below is to assess Python->Erlang messaging
>> > performance.  I am open to other IPC approaches if there is something
>> > better.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Dan.
>> >
>> >
>> > -module(erlang_rpc_benchmark).
>> > -export([start/0, std_server/0]).
>> >
>> > start() ->
>> >  spawn(fun std_server/0).
>> >
>> > std_server() ->
>> >  Port = open_port( {fd,0,1}, [{packet, 4}, binary ] ),
>> >  loop(Port).
>> >
>> > loop(Port) ->
>> >  receive
>> >    {Port, { data, <<A:32,B:32>> }} ->
>> >      Result = A*B,
>> >      Port ! {self(), {command, <<Result:32>>}};
>> >  end,
>> >  loop(Port).
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> --Hynek (Pichi) Vychodil
>>
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