Breakthrough

Cool, I'll have a look at it later on then.

@KronoS awesome, thanks man. Feel free to keep nudging me to come up with a post or any ideas, just because this month is usually a very busy one!

Of course I also have some ideas of my own, but it's always nice to see what's in the "pool" to get started...

@KronoS Heh yeah, things are getting crazy for me now too (September is almost here!). Indeed if I could have access to the Trello board that would be great (it says board private or not found).

Ok sorry I gotta run, TTYL :D\

Heh I remember Y2K testing my machine lol

Due diligence is key.

lol

lol oh one of THOSE...

That's just the way she goes I guess.

:(

So I've heard :)

Never tried it though.

Heh, nice... I've actually read about Haiku before.

(sorry gotta run in like 5 mins)

That being?? :D

Any way I can just peruse the Trello board to get a sense of what people are working on>

I only mentioned them because they do follow my line of research ATM

I could expand on this or this, but I assume you want to stick to more recent topics, ja?

Heh, sorry I feel all scatterbrained since September is literally next week :S

This is true.

lol @JourneymanGeek did you just give up and go with WP like me?

@KronoS I saw a link to the Trello board here, and was interested in seeing what is in the works. I'm most interested in contributing to the SU blog; I started my own website about a year ago, but have kind of slacked on it lately... Any excuse to get me writing again is good, right? :D

> A FIFO special file is similar to a pipe, except that it is created in a different way. [...] Once you have created a FIFO special file in this way, any process can open it for reading or writing, in the same way as an ordinary file. However, it has to be open at both ends simultaneously before you can proceed to do any input or output operations on it. Opening a FIFO for reading normally blocks until some other process opens the same FIFO for writing, *and vice versa.*

Also, see the manpage for mkfifo: linux.die.net/man/3/mkfifo

I think Wikipedia explains this better than I can: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redirection_%28computing%29#Piping

mkfifo creates special files which you can use for asynchronous stream redirection.

It's equivalent to doing echo program2 | program1, but it is not the same thing as a pipe (as you would require echo or cat to do it).

A shell would assume program2 is a file, and would open the file as a stream representing program1's stdin.

program1 < program2 redirects program2's stdout to program1's stdin is false.

@barlop see Scott's answer below. Piping only deals with the standard output of the spawned process, and not the standard input. You need to somehow redirect it from another asynchronous process (like sockets). However, I do see what you meant now. So yes, I/O redirection even without files is not equivalent to piping (as per the semantics of what a pipe does).

@barlop I/O redirection (< or >) is significantly different from piping (|), although you can sometimes achieve an equivalent operation with a mix of both. Again though, with I/O redirection, you can change the location of both streams; piping just redirects the standard output of one process to the standard input of another.

I changed the title because what you mention sounds more like I/O redirection rather than the use of a pipe (which only deals with moving the output of one process to the input of another).

Figured it would be best if I asked you first and avoided making an unnecessary Meta post.

@OliverSalzburg thank you sir, much appreciated.

Should I make a Meta post about it or just leave it be?

sigh superuser.com/a/605100/6887

And also doesn't have a GIL which is a big downside of CPython IMHO :( (although you can try PyPy if you want a fast interpreter :)

It "compiles" Python to CLR

Also for those who like Python, check out IronPython

I'll check that out when I get home, I'm on a Linux machine right now, ty for the heads up

Ah just exports the additional paths when launching the cmd prompt I guess?

Although I was so confused at first because none of the binaries were in my %PATH% because I didn't know there was a special shortcut to launch the VS Command Prompt :P

I recall building OpenCV on Windows and it used cmake and a Visual Studio command prompt...

@BenRichards I was referencing @OliverSalzburg 's question, but I think I recall using those CLI utilities you mention before

I was more surprised than anything that you could build a C# proj without Visual Studio, but I guess it makes sense given you need the .NET runtime (or Mono) to run the app anyways :D

@OliverSalzburg I voted to leave it open