strange behavior on port send

[Klacke]

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 02:43:52PM -0400, Garry Hodgson wrote:
> 
> Garry Hodgson (that's me) wrote:
> 
> > i'm trying to interface to an external application, and having
> > some problems.  i'm using code derived from the "Section 4. Ports"
> > example in the interoperability tutorial.
> 
> errrrr....uhhhhhh....never mind.
> 
> <stops to wipe egg off face>
> 
> i'd done something stupid, adding a debug statement at the end
> of the encode() routine, so the wrong value was ascribed to the
> function.
> that'll teach me to read the error message more carefully.
> 


eggs and all ... there's another minor problem that typically needs
to be taken care of when using open_port(... , [{packet, 0} ...
and that is buffering printf()'s from the c program at the
other end of the Erlang port.

Here's a code snippet:

   char b1[BUFSIZ], b2[BUFSIZ], b3[BUFSIZ];

    setvbuf(stdin, b1, _IOLBF, BUFSIZ);   
    setvbuf(stdout, b2, _IOLBF, BUFSIZ);   
    setvbuf(stderr, b3, _IOLBF, BUFSIZ);   



/klacke



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