From: Lawrence Oluyede Date: 2005-05-14T07:50:29+09:00 Subject: Re: Deal with large inputs in a popen (was Re: Get back data from a child (with exec)) Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov writes: > ah, why didn't you say so? ;-) that's __exactly__ why i designed my session > lib - to NOT hang tk apps. it's thread safe so you can do this: Seems cool but I don't get it work with my own example. Popen/forks/threads/hangs are causing me a big headache in those days :D Everything (popen and my own fork based code) seems to work except when it's behind a web app. I think I should write a Ruby replacement of the external process -- Lawrence http://www.oluyede.org/blog