[fpc-devel] TProcess.NumBytesAvailable

[Vincent Snijders]

Marc Weustink schreef:
> Vincent Snijders wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> TAsyncProcess from the LCL has a property NumBytesAvailable. Attached 
>> patch adds it to TProcess in the FCL.
>>
>> NumBytesAvailable checks how many bytes are available in 
>> TProcess.Output, so you can  decide not to read from it if there are 
>> no bytes available.
> 
> What about StdErr output ?
> 
> Cant this be a property of the TInputPipeStream ?
> 
> 

Seems like an good idea. I will create a new patch.

Jonas Maebe schreef:
 >
 > The FIONREAD constant is available in the termio units of both Darwin
 > and FreeBSD as of 2.0.4 (not for Open/NetBSD, but that's probably the
 > least of the things which need to be changed to get those platforms
 > going again).

Thanks for the hint. I guess this was not yet the case when TAsyncProcess was 
written by Micha.

Vincent