From: Venkat Venkataraju <outofjungle@...>
Date: 2005-05-12T10:16:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Infinite loop program w/ IO.popen

Logan Capaldo wrote:
> Does this version behave better? It should exit immediately but have a
> forked process doing its thing in the background with no need for an
> at the shell.
> 

It works!!! Thanks for the info.

I did find that all the programs that use stdin needs to be connected to
a tty. my main goal was to execute ssh command thru pipe, but i chose
"top" as an example as it had similar behavior.

so for ssh, all i have to pass -f or -n flag and it routes the stdin to
/dev/null and that fixed my issue.

Thanks
Venkat