--- /dev/null
+#! /usr/bin/perl
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+package Engine;
+
+sub open {
+ my ($class, $cmdline, $tag) = @_;
+
+ my ($uciread, $uciwrite);
+ my $pid = IPC::Open2::open2($uciread, $uciwrite, $cmdline);
+
+ my $engine = {
+ pid => $pid,
+ read => $uciread,
+ readbuf => '',
+ write => $uciwrite,
+ info => {},
+ ids => {},
+ tag => $tag,
+ };
+
+ return bless $engine;
+}
+
+sub print {
+ my ($engine, $msg) = @_;
+ print { $engine->{'write'} } "$msg\n";
+}
+
+sub read_lines {
+ my $engine = shift;
+
+ #
+ # Read until we've got a full line -- if the engine sends part of
+ # a line and then stops we're pretty much hosed, but that should
+ # never happen.
+ #
+ while ($engine->{'readbuf'} !~ /\n/) {
+ my $tmp;
+ my $ret = sysread $engine->{'read'}, $tmp, 4096;
+
+ if (!defined($ret)) {
+ next if ($!{EINTR});
+ die "error in reading from the UCI engine: $!";
+ } elsif ($ret == 0) {
+ die "EOF from UCI engine";
+ }
+
+ $engine->{'readbuf'} .= $tmp;
+ }
+
+ # Blah.
+ my @lines = ();
+ while ($engine->{'readbuf'} =~ s/^([^\n]*)\n//) {
+ my $line = $1;
+ $line =~ tr/\r\n//d;
+ push @lines, $line;
+ }
+ return @lines;
+}
+
+
+
+1;