Re: [perl #61290] [BIG] can't peek on stdin

[email protected] (Bob Rogers)
Newsgroups perl.perl6.internals,perl.perl6.internals
Message-ID <[email protected]>
   From: chromatic <[email protected]>
   Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:07:53 -0800

   On Thursday 11 December 2008 06:14:36 François PERRAD wrote:

   > Since the merge of the branch ppd22io, the mode of the stdin stream has
   > changed. Currently, it isn't possible to peek on stdin . . .
   >
   > The issue was detected with I/O library of Lua (see
   > languages/lua/t/io.t#17).

   We should support this; how about upgrading the IO PMC to buffered reads when 
   we detect a peek?  Here's a patch that makes the test pass for me.  Any 
   objections, anyone else?

   -- c

Are you sure this works?  Have you checked that the resulting string is
correct?  See Trac #52.

					-- Bob Rogers
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