From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-12-13T06:28:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby, Windows XP, and CMD.exe

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, David Vallner wrote:

> Clark Snowdall wrote:
>> I am developing a SOAP server running on a Windows XP machine.  When
>> contacted from the outside, it will launch a windows executable at the
>> command line.  The problem is this executable takes a long time.  When I
>> would block on the SOAP call I would get a time out error on the client
>> end, as one would expect.
>
> How are you launching that process?
>
> system() or `` are Bad Ideas, IO.popen should do what you need.

why would say that?  IO.popen and more than one thread is a disaster on
windows: if the parent doesn't read from the process fast enough one will end
up with deadlock.

regards.

-a
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