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Re: A little Python-fu with select()



 On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:54:11PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: 
> If and only if the total amount of output is greater than the 
> specified buffer size, then reading on this file hangs indefinitely. 

That turned out to be not quite correct.  It was if the stderr 
exceeded 4k.  With the help of a coworker, I figured out that I needed 
to use non-blocking I/O on the pipe. :)   

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