On Thu, 21 May 2015 12:50:18 -0700, tony.od...@live.com wrote:
> Encountered the following problem implementing Event::Emitter between
> processes. This code will run forever as .read(1) forever reads
> nothing from $*IN
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/env perl6
>
>
>
>
> my $p = Proc::Async.new('perl6', '-e', '
> await start {
>
> my $d = $*IN.read(1);
>
> while $d.elems == 0 {
>
> $d = $*IN.read(1);
>
> }
>
> $d.say;
>
> };', :w);
>
>
>
> my $r = $p.start;
>
> $p.write("0".encode);
>
> await $r;
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> ACTUAL:
> Sub process 'reads' an empty Buf forever
>
> EXPECTED:
> Sub process eventually 'reads' a Buf containing 1 byte
>
This was one of the many cases of I/O handles not working across different
threads, which was fixed earlier on this year. Output is now:
Buf[uint8]:0x<30>
Various tests were added covering this, as it showed up in various other
tickets, so will mark this issue resolved.
