From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@...>
Date: 2005-01-12T06:34:19+09:00
Subject: return code from Open3.popen?

Hi,

Is there a (non-hackish) way to get the error code from Open3.popen()? 
The only way I seem to be able to do it currently is by appending "echo
$?" to the command, and parsing it out of stdout.  $?.exitstatus contains
some random value.