[fpc-pascal] Pipe buffering, accessing C-style stdin/stdout

[Vincent Snijders]

Marco van de Voort schreef:
>> After a lot of googling and experimenting, I think I have managed to 
>> make it work, but only in C code, and I want it to run in Pascal. The 
>> key to make it work in C was to call setvbuf at the right time, to set 
>> the buffering mode for stdin/stdout. The problem with FPC is that I 
>> can't find any straightforward way to either get PFile-style 
>> stdin/stdout from the Text-style input/output (surely there is a 
>> connection?)
> 
> Yes. PFile _IS_ Text style.  PFile is the C wrapper implementing buffer,
> Text the analogue Pascal buffering.  I assume that settextbuf to 0 didn't work?
> 
> ( http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/settextbuf.html )
> 
> If that doesn't work, you need to go back to the raw unbuffered IO, do a
> IOCTL if necessary.  FPOpen, FPClose, FPWrite, FPRead
> 
> Moreover, how does lazarus deal with this?

I guess Lazarus doesn't care, as long as it gets all the information at 
the end. There is no bidirectional communication between Lazarus and the 
compiler.

Vincent