From: "John-Mason P. Shackelford" Date: 2006-05-23T00:10:50+09:00 Subject: Process::Status or exit code from popen3 win32 ? Greetings all, The win32 version of popen3 does not appear to set $? and Process.waitpid2(pid) always seems to fail with "no child process". Other than Ara's clever hack at http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/msg/c0e7fc74641b9a50 , can anyone recommend how I can grab stdout, stderr, and the Process::Status (or at least the return code) for a child process on windows? My objective is to build a basic cross-platform popen4-like method (though I do not strictly need stdin) and the lack of Process::Status / exit code appears to be the only thing preventing me from using win32 popen3 for that purpose. Many thanks, -- John-Mason Shackelford Software Developer Pearson Educational Measurement 2510 North Dodge St. Iowa City, IA 52245 ph. 319-354-9200x6214 john-mason.shackelford@pearson.com http://pearsonedmeasurement.com