On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Stephen McRoberts wrote:

> I have a working program which records camera video then does an scp with
> libcurl. But this delays the scp until the recording is complete.
>
> What I'd like to do is use mkfifo to start recording and upload while
> recording with minimal delay. Is this possible using a custom read_callback?
> Any code fragments?

I believe that in the case of SCP, libcurl needs to know the size of the
upload before it starts (to tell libssh2 in the libssh2_scp_send64) function
call). I'm pretty sure it will then not send any more data than so, even if it
would be possible to read more from a pipe...

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