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Top Forums Programming Trouble with pipes in chat client on linux Post 302718407 by Corona688 on Friday 19th of October 2012 02:26:25 PM
Old 10-19-2012
As per my last post:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Pipes buffer. You may not get a line out of the pipe the instant you write it in.
You don't need a pipe to know when the child dies anyhow; you get sent a SIGCHLD signal when it does. Catch that to handle when the child quits.
 

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EMPATHY(1)							   User Commands							EMPATHY(1)

NAME
empathy - GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client SYNOPSIS
empathy DESCRIPTION
GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client Instant messaging program supporting text, voice, video, file transfers and inter-application communication over many different protocols, including: AIM, MSN, Google Talk (Jabber/XMPP), Facebook, Yahoo!, Salut, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ and QQ. The main user interface consists of a contact list window and an icon in the notification area. OPTIONS
-n, --no-connect Don't connect on startup -h, --start-hidden Don't display the contact list or any other dialogs on startup -v, --version Show version ENVIRONMENT
EMPATHY_LOGFILE=filename If set, debug output will go to the given file rather than to stderr. EMPATHY_DEBUG=type May be set to "all" for full debug output, or various undocumented options (which may change from release to release) to filter the output. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). SEE ALSO
empathy-accounts(1), The Telepathy project <http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/>, The Empathy project <http://live.gnome.org/Empathy>. Telepathy project February 2010 EMPATHY(1)
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