Re: i/o redirect problem w/minimad

Thanks, I'm sorry to have bothered you with the question.  I realized this 
was the case shortly after I sent the message.  I just had not thought 
about, for a long time, what the shell is actually doing with a redirect 
("<"), and how that is fundamentally different than a pipe.


emil

At 01:11 PM 9/28/2004, you wrote:
>On Sep 28, 2004, at 12:06 PM, Emil Rojas wrote:
>>If I run minimad like:
>>minimad < x.mp2 > x.pcm
>>it works fine, but if I run it like
>>cat x.mp2 | minimad > x.pcm
>>
>>The state returns a zero size the minimad exits.
>>
>>Does anyone have any idea why this might happen?
>
>It happens because mmap() cannot map a pipe into memory. minimad requires 
>that stdin be a regular file.
>
>--
>Rob Leslie
>[email protected]
>