From: HarryO <harryo@...>
Date: 2001-11-08T02:41:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24545] Re: Doing both input and output to a process

In article <20011107080314.A515@digikata.com>, "Alan Chen"
<alan@digikata.com> wrote:


> I gather that you need something more than backticks, but I thought I'd
> mention them just in case.
> 
> retstr = `echo hi`

Yes.  I want to set up a process and have my program interact with it
as if it was a user.  Something akin to a pty, but I haven't been able to
find anything that gives me an interface to the pty system calls.