Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>:
> Even if nc itself does no buffering (handing data to the OS as soon as
> received, highly desirable for a tool like nc), the OS keeps a buffer
> for the pipeline between nc and python,
Yes, there is a buffer associated with the pipe, but linux/unix never
withholds any data from the reader. As soon as there is a single byte in
the pipe buffer, the reader process becomes ready to run and read(2) on
the pipe returns immediately.
> and python itself keeps a buffer for sys.stdin.
I found this comment in CPython's source code (pythonrun.c):
/* stdin is always opened in buffered mode, first because it shouldn't
make a difference in common use cases, second because TextIOWrapper
depends on the presence of a read1() method which only exists on
buffered streams.
*/
The solution is to use os.read().
Marko
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