From: nobu@...
Date: 2006-08-01T12:05:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby hangs when executing a another program

Hi,

At Tue, 1 Aug 2006 04:52:42 +0900,
Christopher Rasch wrote in [ruby-talk:205273]:
> If I run the same command in the ruby interpreter, the interpreter  
> hangs until I issue a break command ("Ctrl-C"  ) :
> 
> irb(main):127:0> %x{ ssh -l root localhost /Library/FrontBase/bin/ 
> FBExec & }

%x and `` wait until the command exits and read the output from
it.

-- 
Nobu Nakada