A trick with perl

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Tom Anderson wrote:

>> On 12/24 a patch from Henning Makholm was added to 0.15.12 to help with
>> that situation - letting bogofilter run via pipe instead of
>> stdin/stdout.  If you're interested, look for function
>> bogoreader_close_ifeof(), how it is used, and how feof() is used.  I
>> don't know enough about pipes to evaluate the patch, test it, or debug
> 
> feof() just returns a boolean regarding whether the EOF indicator is
> found on a given stream, and bogoreader_close_ifeof() calls
> bogoreader_close() when feof(fpin) is true.
>
> The question is, how do you set the EOF indicator without closing the
> stream?

Right, this is not helpful. My hope was that -T outputs one
line with the next From_ line.

> Autoflush?  I don't recall that working before, but it was
> probably an earlier version than 0.15.12.  

I just tried it. I couldn't get it to work.

pi