2017.07.01 15:23 "Re: [Tiff] Read tiff file piped from stdout ?", by Even Rouault

On samedi 1 juillet 2017 11:21:17 CEST Aaron Boxer wrote:

  Thanks, Even. I will take a look. I suppose I could read the stream into
 memory, and then read from that.

Sure. If your TIFF are small enough to hold in RAM, you'll of course be able to read any TIFF formulation that way.

  Will vsistdin work on windows?

Yes

  On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Even Rouault <even.rouault@spatialys.com>
 wrote:

On samedi 1 juillet 2017 10:21:12 CEST Aaron Boxer wrote:

In the general case, no. If the file has been specifically created for being read in a streamble way and the read access pattern is compatible of it, yes. You may read with interest the "Streaming operations" section at the end of

http://gdal.org/frmt_gtiff.html for more details

The GDAL /vsistdin/ special file mentionned in it is mostly a wrapper over standard stdin, with buffering of the first 1MB so that all seeking within this first MB works. Beyond /vsistdin/, only accepts dummy seeks (no

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position change), or forward seeks.

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