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Subject: Re: A stream/pipe that fills only on demand...
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 10:00:26 +0000
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On 07/11/14 09:34, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> My needs are a bit different, though:  I need a pipe-stream
> that recognizes reader's request for bytes, and tells the
> writer-end about the requested volume, and then the writer
> will write just as much into the pipe as is needed by the
> reader. The reader just uses the normal API that InputStream
> offers, but I need these calls to identify themselves to the
> pipe-writer, which would use a (yet unspecified) special API,
> so the writer knows how much to put into the pipe-stream.

Surely, that special API is InputStream itself...?

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