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Nuticulus · May 22nd, 2005, 9:21 AM

If you're piping stdout of dmesg to the stdin of ./example, can you provide stdin from the keyboard also? Just wondering.

Edit: thinking about it, if you've reached EOF, getchar() will return EOF instantly, because there's absolutely nothing left to be read. And you can't just magically give it input from stdin, because that comes from the program piping input, not your keyboard.

I'm puzzled as to why you made this program. Why not just pipe output to /dev/null?

May 22nd, 2005, 9:21 AM	#2
Nuticulus Programmer Join Date: May 2005 Location: England Posts: 61 Rep Power: 4	If you're piping stdout of dmesg to the stdin of ./example, can you provide stdin from the keyboard also? Just wondering. Edit: thinking about it, if you've reached EOF, getchar() will return EOF instantly, because there's absolutely nothing left to be read. And you can't just magically give it input from stdin, because that comes from the program piping input, not your keyboard. I'm puzzled as to why you made this program. Why not just pipe output to /dev/null? __________________ http://www.nuticulus.net/hackmysig/sig.PNG Give my site a chance, you know you want to ;-) Google will solve 99% of your problems. Including those with your sex life. Caution, may <strike>contain</strike> be nuts. Last edited by Nuticulus; May 22nd, 2005 at 9:38 AM.