Re: mplayer doesn't update the size of a growing file

The Wanderer <[email protected]> Sun, 16 Sep 2018 06:57:12 -0400

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On 2018-09-16 at 05:21, Nicolas George wrote:

> The Wanderer (2018-09-15):
> 
>> which in this case means they get mixed in with the data stream of
>> the input file.
> 
> Not mixed! That would be terrible design by the people who invented 
> Unix. When MPlayer's input is connected to a file, it is no longer 
> connected to the tty, so the keys on the tty get queued until
> somebody else reads them.

Hmm. Are you sure?

I agree that it would be mildly terrible design, but when I tested this
I did get brief errors in the terminal which seemed as if they might be
indicating small stream corruptions.

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   The Wanderer

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