Re: Event loop and http::geturl

Jonathan Kelly <jonkelly@fastmail.fm> wrote:

proc queue {} {
  set ::input [open "|cat test.txt" r]
  fconfigure $::input -blocking 0 -buffering line
  fileevent $::input readable [list check $::input]
}

Curious why you are opening a pipe to cat, having cat read and print
the contents, and then consuming that, when you can just open text.txt
directly:

set ::input [open test.txt r]

And achieve the same result.