This is part of a university assignment but the problem I have does not relate to the assignment itself.
I have a C file that is waiting for two inputs from terminal, there are two gets(info1) and later a gets(info2). I have a buffered writed that I use to do the following inside python:
sys.stdout.buffer.write("Hello 1".encode("ascii"))
sys.stdout.flush()
sys.stdout.buffer.write("Hello 2".encode("ascii"))
sys.stdout.flush()
I then have a pipeline that sends these outputs from the python code to the input of the C program using the terminal. When I run the command I can see on the prints that both "Hello 1" and "Hello 2" is sent to gets(info1). Why is this happening? Since I flush the buffer should it not send the first input to the terminal, getting catched by the C first gets(info1) and "Hello 2" getting catched in the second gets(info2)? I even introduced a sleep function after the first flush but it sleeps then sends both the outputs to the first gets(info1). The pipeline obviously works since the C program is able to get the output from terminal produced by the python program. But why am I only gettings inputs to the first function even though I flush the buffer after the first string is written?
When I do
sys.stdout.buffer.write("Hello 1".encode("ascii"))
sys.stdout.buffer.write("\n".encode("ascii"))
sys.stdout.flush()
sys.stdout.buffer.write("Hello 2".encode("ascii"))
sys.stdout.flush()
It sends it properly. However, I need the output to be very specific
