From: Caio Chassot Date: 2006-09-20T10:14:39+09:00 Subject: Re: piping input when shelling out On 2006-09-19, at 22:10 , Paul Lutus wrote: > The problem with File.popen() is that you want bidirectional > communication > with the child process, and AFAIK that doesn't offer it -- you can > either > read, or write, to the pipe, but not both. Hmm, that's not cool. I'll run some tests, but looks like it's back to using tempfiles then.