clogged pipe

What if? Say you want to execute something in a python sub-process and you want to read and resend all output data, no matter how big they are?

The simplest solution to use pipe is BAD idea - pipe has it's own buffer and what's worse size of this buffer is constant and cannot be changed by using some smart fnctl call any more. Let's run a simple test:



On my laptop I'm not able to send more than 64kB at a time, moreover its completely hanging:



Hmmm... So how can you send more than that? Let's say this way:



Use a simple manager, man! More info here.

There is also possibility  to use shared memory objects (read this), but those are rather for storing not so huge amount of data.

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