From: Heesob Park Date: 2009-03-14T17:44:27+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:22887] [Bug #1287] $? not set after Open3::popen3 Bug #1287: $? not set after Open3::popen3 http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1287 Author: Heesob Park Status: Open, Priority: Normal Target version: 1.9.1 ruby -v: ruby 1.9.1p0 (2009-01-30 revision 21907) [i686-linux] $? is not set after popen3 in 1.9.1 Try following code: require 'open3' status = Open3::popen3("echo hello") do |stdin,stdout,stderr| stdout.each { |line| puts "stdout:"+line } end p $? [sidns@ns ~]$ ruby -v po.rb ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i686-linux] stdout:hello # [siweb@localhost ~]$ ruby -v po.rb ruby 1.9.1p0 (2009-01-30 revision 21907) [i686-linux] stdout:hello nil ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org