Luigi Auriemma

Hi guys,

I'm trying to make pipe between my ventrilo_srv (2.1.4) and a 'grep' command for example.
(for example: ./ventrilo_srv | grep "Ventrilo" or by using pipe() function in c)
But i'm receiving the results only after some thousand of bytes have been printed to the screen (stdout).
I need to get every line, or even every byte.

any help?

Thanks :)

uhmmm have you already tried to use "CloseStd=0" in the ini of your server?

another solution you can adopt is: ./ventrilo_srv 2>&1 | grep"Ventrilo"

at the moment I don't have other ideas

doesn't works. =\
How does it make sense? Because i'm getting the stdout to my screen.. there is no way to catch it from the buffer to a string or something else? (with fork and pipe)
Can you try help me do that? i tried mkfifo() and pipe(), i'm stuck almost month :S

Another question - is there a way to make an "invisible" player (or player that can't be banned\kicked)?

well, if you don't want to use the pipe because doesn't work good you can launch the process and getting all the std* with pipe.
on internet exist various example about how doing it in shorter or longer ways, I worked on pipes some years ago when I wrote cmdsock where you can find my window/linux implementation in the "quick_thread(cmdbind, int sd)" function.

and no, I'm not aware of ways to make the player invisible

I think you didn't understand me, i will explain my self better now.
I don't have a prefer to a specific way, i tried use pipe(), myfif(), socket, and pipe with bash ( | ) - the whole ways no seems to be working.
for example i tried to use :



and etc.. but the whole ways gave me the stdout only after some thousands of bytes.. (weird :S ).
i tried using setvbuf() for getting the stdout to be flushed every byte - as you see it wasn't helpful.

If you think your function - "quick_thread" - can help me in this case, i will be grateful to get a link :)
Or if you have another solution now after you understood what i meant i will be great!

Thanks and sorry for making you crazy :P

no, if you have already tried the pipe/fork solution my function can't help (I have tested it here and doesn't catch the ventrilo output at all... mah).

anyway it's just something very strange, seems that all the output (for example using the > redirect) is flushed only when ventrilo_srv terminates... I don't have enough experiece with the handling of stderr/stdin/stdout to have an idea about this.