[fpc-pascal] Pipe vs Memory buffer.

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, fredvs wrote:

>> That will never work.
>
>> OP_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT OggOpusFile *op_test_memory(const unsigned char
>> *_data, size_t _size,int *_error);
>
>> expects a memory buffer; you cannot pass it a stream.
>
> Ha, ok.
>
> And how to convert a pipe into a  memory buffer ?

Read from it and append the content to the buffer.
This probably means some polling mechanism:
fpSelect on unix, WaitForObject on windows. 
Or maybe using a thread. But that will require some synchronisation.

Michael.