From: ts Date: 2001-07-27T20:13:44+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:18621] Re: IO.popen >>>>> "S" == Sean Chittenden writes: S> return to a no longer existent stack frame. Be careful, also, to call S> _exit(2) rather than exit(3) if you can't execve(2), since exit(3) will S> flush and close standard I/O channels, and thereby mess up the parent ruby call _exit(2), this is the first thing that I've verified :-) Guy Decoux