From: Aleksandr Levchuk Date: 2007-01-09T16:30:44+09:00 Subject: popen3 + bash surprise It was surprising when the following code froze: require 'open3' i, o, e = Open3::popen3('/bin/bash') c = o.getc puts c.chr # expecting the first character of my bash prompt -- -------------------------------------------- Aleksandr Levchuk University of California, Riverside 1-951-368-0004 --------------------------------------------