From: evanm@...
Date: 2004-06-24T20:22:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Cleaning up IO#popen

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:04:45PM +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> I admit there will be better ways much.  But I'd like to
> introduce a new class for child process rather than popen3.

Sure. My main concern is looking to the functions in the base classes and
stdlib, and seeing inconsistant argument handling. I agree that a lot of this
should live in a new class, but where possible I'd try to standardize the
interface, even between IO and some new class.

> Single pipe pair cannot be used for bidirectional, and
> fork_open doesn't feel a good name for me.

Pardon me, I meant to say that it leaves both ends open. Perhaps fork_read or
fork_write? I don't like the name either, but it's all I could think of.