From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-11-20T08:12:43+09:00
Subject: Re: backticks asynchronous?

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 08:05:45AM +0900, Giles Bowkett wrote:
> 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?
> 
Right, ruby will wait for the process to complete.
> -- 
> Giles Bowkett
> http://www.gilesgoatboy.org