From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2004-10-23T06:44:13+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] Problem with popen on WIn32 (1.8.x)

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Laurent Julliard wrote:

> Can anybody tell me why the following Ruby code that uses popen
> doesn't work at all on my Windows XP (Pro  SP1) machine, ruby 1.8.2
> preview2 or 1.8.1?
>
> you.rb
> ------
> while true
>   sleep 1
>   puts "This line should print in me.rb"
> end
>
> me.rb
> -----
> pig = IO.popen("ruby.exe you.rb", "w+")
>
> while true
>   pig.gets
> end
>
> Launch me.rb and you'll see that no output is showing at all. On Linux
> it works like a charm.
>
> If you succeed in making this work can you tell me which version of
> Ruby and Windows you are using?
>
> Thanks for all your help
>
> Laurent

perhaps putting STDOUT.sync = true in you.rb might help??

-a
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