Am Jan 18, 2007 um 20:01  schrieb Giovanni Corriga:

> Il giorno gio, 18/01/2007 alle 00.27 +0000, Keith Hodges ha scritto:
>> Giovanni Corriga wrote:
>>> Il giorno mer, 17/01/2007 alle 22.41 +0000, Keith Hodges ha scritto:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> just a quick question, are any of the VM's particularly the unixish
>>>> ones, wired to produce output on stdout or stderr. Are there  
>>>> primitives
>>>> for doing so without any plugins?
>>>>
>>>
>>> If you need output only, you can try opening /dev/stdout and /dev/ 
>>> stderr
>>> as simple files.
>>>
>>> This should work on Linux; not sure if it'll work on other Unix  
>>> systems.
>>>
>>> 	Giovanni
>>>
>> Yes that worked!
>
> Just for the record, this works for reading from  stdin too, but
> unfortunately it's a synchronous (blocking) read.

Actually, when you use AsyncFile for reading, this works fine :)

In the OLPC image I use this to read commands from a pipe issued by  
an external process.

- Bert -