in reply to Re^4: pipe fork win32
in thread pipe fork win32

I am going to use this solution, it seems the most reliable (compared to guessing the IO buffer size of day).

Agreed.

The string x nnn wasn't really intended as a solution, just a demonstration of the cause.

Switching to line buffering for 'interactive communications' is the solution.

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