I'm reading from a tcpdump pipe. I want to receive one line from the
pipe as soon as its available from tcpdump. Something is buffering the
pipe though, so I am receiving nothing, then multiple lines in a big
batch. I thought this was the inherent buffering of next(), but it
affects readline too.
For example,
tcpdump = os.popen( 'sudo tcpdump', 'r')
both
while True: print tcpdump.next(),
and
while True: print tcpdump.readlin e(),
buffer mutiple lines before printing.
Please cc me in your reply. Thanks,
Shaun
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Shaun Jackman wrote: I'm reading from a tcpdump pipe. I want to receive one line from the
pipe as soon as its available from tcpdump. Something is buffering the
pipe though, so I am receiving nothing, then multiple lines in a big
batch. I thought this was the inherent buffering of next(), but it
affects readline too.
For example,
tcpdump = os.popen( 'sudo tcpdump', 'r')
both
while True: print tcpdump.next(),
and
while True: print tcpdump.readlin e(),
buffer mutiple lines before printing.
My understanding is that the libc library linked to tcpdump queries the
file it has as standard output and discovers a pipe. It then decides to
buffer output for efficiency. So what you need to do is make sure that
the tcpdump standard output is not a pipe.
Check out the pty module. It will connect a psuedo tty as the tcpdump
standard output. This will prevent the libc from buffering.
- Dave
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