From: Giles Bowkett <gilesb@...>
Date: 2006-11-20T08:05:45+09:00
Subject: backticks asynchronous?

sorry, dumb question possibly, I just want to make sure. if I call
some Unix command using backticks, that invokes the command, launches
a new process, and waits until that process terminates before resuming
program execution, right? especially if I do this:

shell_output = `some process`

which should capture the output of the process. right? it isn't possible to say

shell_output = `some process`

and accidentally see execution fork, is it?

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Giles Bowkett
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