From: greg <eegreg@...>
Date: 2006-09-29T20:58:08+09:00
Subject: Re: how to determine if pipe is given

Thanks for all the info guys.  Here is what I came up with.
This code seems invincible so far- it even works with &

 require 'thread'

 input = nil
 t = Thread.new() do
   input = STDIN.readlines
 end

 # do some stuff
 # parse some options

 while t.alive?
   old = input
   puts "thread running for 1 second"
   Kernel.sleep(1)

   if old == input
     if input
       puts "done collecting input"
     else
       puts "no input found on STDIN"
     end
     Kernel.sleep(1)

     t.kill
     break
   else
     puts "done collecting input"
     Kernel.sleep(1)
   end
 end

 puts input

Greg