From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-03-05T20:48:10+09:00
Subject: Re: IO.popen puts

On 3/5/07, Rebhan, Gilbert <Gilbert.Rebhan@huk-coburg.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> i want to do a cvs login for a list of cvsrepositories
> with IO.popen
>
> the normal login via Windows shell looks like =
>
> Y:\>cvs -d :pserver:username@cvshost:d:/cvsrepos/test login
> Logging in to :pserver:username@cvshost:2401:d:/cvsrepos/test
> CVS password: ********
>
>
> i tried with =
>
> cvsrepos=%w[test,test1,test2]
> cvsrepos.each {|x|
>   IO.popen("#{CVSEXE} -d #{CVSROOT}/#{x} login", 'r+') do |pipe|
> pipe << "password"
> pipe.close_write
> puts pipe.read
> end
> }
>
> but the script hangs with the output
> CVS password:
>
> What went wrong ?

just a guess:
1. try adding newline
2. try redirecting stdin on the command line without ruby (maybe cvs
reads the keyboard directly)