progress toward cleaning up logic of various modes and how the use their pipes

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/hi-test.c b/tools/hi-test.c
index 47128a9..e2626cc 100644
--- a/tools/hi-test.c
+++ b/tools/hi-test.c
@@ -50,10 +50,22 @@ void dump(const string var){
   else  cerr << " is not set." << endl;
 }
 
+void countsome(const int unit){
+    char buf[3000];
+    int total(0);
+    for (;;) {
+      int rslt = read(unit, buf, sizeof(buf));
+      if (rslt <= 0) break;
+      total += rslt;
+    }
+    cerr << "read " << total << " bytes from unit " << unit << endl;
+}
+
 int main(int _argc, const char** _argv){
   int snooze(0);
   int status(0);
   int killmode(0);
+  int countmode(0);
   int argc(_argc);
   const char **argv(_argv);
   progname = *argv; argv++; argc--;
@@ -84,6 +96,10 @@ int main(int _argc, const char** _argv){
       killmode++;
       continue;
     }
+    if (prefix(arg, "-count")) {
+      countmode++;
+      continue;
+    }
     if (arg.substr(0,1) == "x") {
       continue;
     }
@@ -103,6 +119,10 @@ int main(int _argc, const char** _argv){
   if (foo) cerr << " HI_Q_GROUP: " << foo;
   cerr << endl;
   sleep(snooze);
+  if (countmode) {
+    countsome(0);
+    countsome(1);
+  }
   if (killmode) exeunt(status);
   exit(status);
 }