Exec actor (was Re: [kepler-dev] 2d display widget?)

[Tobin Fricke]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Dan Higgins wrote:

> dir which uses an actor called 'InteractiveExec'. This was a rought

Why does the Exec / InteractiveExec actor spawn off threads to 'gobble'
input from the underlying process's stdout?

Would it be possible to just let the operating system buffer the standard
i/o streams, and then read all available data from stdout in the fire()
method?

Tobin