From: "U.Nakamura" Date: 2005-10-20T00:55:57+09:00 Subject: Re: IO.popen unreliable on win32 Hello, In message "[ ruby-Bugs-2672 ] IO.popen unreliable on win32" on Oct.20,2005 00:44:04, wrote: | IO.popen is unreliable on win32 because of a broken implementation of _popen in a windows library being used by Ruby. At least this is what I assum eis the case, taken from Python popen documentation which states that _popen is broken and later versions of python don't use it. Ruby on win32 does not use MSVCRT's _popen() yet. | Found this out when trying to write a simple backup script for Subversion, do a svnadmin dump Repo and pipe it into a backup file (even gzipping in the process). But in ruby the result would be the wrong filesize(2.5MB instead of 2.8MB) and would fail part way through the svnadmin load Repo < dumpfile call on a different machine. Please show us minimum reproducible script, if you can. Regards, -- U.Nakamura