From: "ryanatball (Ryan Melton)" <rmelton@...>
Date: 2013-11-27T07:34:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:58612] [ruby-trunk - Bug #7239] Can't read from	subprocess when run with rubyw on windows


Issue #7239 has been updated by ryanatball (Ryan Melton).


Please backport this to Ruby 1.9.3.
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Bug #7239: Can't read from subprocess when run with rubyw on windows
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7239#change-43180

Author: mthiede (Martin Thiede)
Status: Closed
Priority: Normal
Assignee: usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)
Category: core
Target version: 
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20) [i386-mingw32]
Backport: 


File.open 'res.txt', 'w' do |f|
f << `dir`
end

when run with "rubyw", the file "res.txt" will be empty, when run with "ruby" it will contain the output of the "dir" command

the problem is present in Ruby versions 1.9.1, 1.9.2 and 1.9.3
the problem is *not* present in Ruby version 1.8.7


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