From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-04T02:23:33+09:00
Subject: Re: DRb on Windows Wants to Be Touched

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Keith Fahlgren wrote:

> Hey,
>
> We all appreciate the special joy that human contact can bring, but this
> is driving me crazy....
>
> Warning: I'll admit upfront that I only do occasionally Ruby programming
> on Windows, so this could be a simple issue.
>
> Here's the problem:
> 1. I run a DRb server on a Windows box to provide access to a
> Windows-only program (using system())
> 2. I hit it from a DRb client
> 3. The command prompt (DOS) on the server side waits/hangs at
> (seemingly) random times until I hit some keyboard keys (like, say
> CTRL+B) and then it continues
>
> Why in the world should the server wait for human (keyboard)
> intervention?
>

the program run requires stdin.  reopen 'stdin' to 'nul' (or whatever it is in
windows) before becoming a daemon.


-a
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