From: Daniel N <has.sox@...>
Date: 2006-09-20T10:24:28+09:00
Subject: Re: piping input when shelling out

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On 9/20/06, Caio Chassot <lists@v2studio.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.


Again, I havn't used it before, but the IO#pipe command seems to allow for
bi-directional control.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/IO.html#M001252

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