From: Damphyr <damphyr@...>
Date: 2005-11-24T01:01:09+09:00
Subject: getting stdout and stderr for system calls on windows

OK, I'm stuck with a pretty problem:
I need to drive a build process using make (dmake) from my scripts and I 
want to capture stdout and stderr as well as the return value from dmake.
Normally I would do it using Daniel Berger's win32-popen3, but I have a 
Windows Installer Ruby with VC++6.0 which nastily gives me a segfault 
(properly documented in the README, but still a segfault :) ).
Recompiling Ruby is a no-no and changing VC compiler also a no-no.

Now, does anyone have a quick solution for me?
Is there anyway to call say:

system 'echo blabla'

and to redirect stdout and stderr used by system? (I guess not).
Any help is appreciated.
I am aware of

IO.popen("dmake target 2>&1") {|f|
     output = f.read
     exitcode = Process.waitpid2(f.pid)[1]
   }
and is currently my best choice, although I would like to split stderr 
and stdout.

Cheers,
V.-
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