stdin/stdout and flush

[Andre Pany]

On Tuesday, 27 August 2019 at 20:45:44 UTC, a11e99z wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 August 2019 at 20:09:34 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
>> 
>> This applications will be called by a second application:
>> import std;
>> void main() {
>>     auto p = pipeShell("a", Redirect.all);
>>     p.stdin.writeln("e1");
>>     p.stdin.writeln("10");
>>     p.stdin.writeln("e2");
>>     p.stdin.writeln("9");
>>     p.stdin.flush();
>>     p.stdout.readln();
>> }
>>
>> In application a.d the first "while round" will succeed as 
>> expected. But in the second "while round" the readln does not 
>> wait until there is an input but gets an empty string. The 
>> to!int will therefore throw an exception.
>>
>> Why does the readln returns an empty string in the second run 
>> and does not wait on an input?
>>
>
> probably cuz no second "send round" in b.d.
> or u mean second half-round "e2,9"?

I mean the coding in the while loop is executed twice.

If I start application A in the console using ```dmd -run a.d``` 
the readln functions are waiting on stdin input in first and 
second execution of the while logic.

But if application A is called from application B then in the 
second execution of the while loop, the readln statements just 
return empty strings.

Do I have to clear some buffers?

Kind regards
Andre