From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-10-07T00:41:04+09:00
Subject: Re: popen in non-blocking mode


On Oct 6, 2007, at 9:10 AM, Marcin Raczkowski wrote:

> this question was repeated over and over a least 20 times (quick  
> google search spawned 10 threads) and answer ultimatelly as the  
> same - someone already did it - use open4 gem / visit  
> codeforpeople.com website

heh - i wrote that i and i didn't suggest that.  good one though!  ;-)

actually that will only help on *nix.  dunno if that helps the OP or  
not?  otherwise check out both open4 *and* session - both on http:// 
codeforpeople.com/

session.rb shows how to communicate with a subprocess as you are -  
check out the Bash and IDL clients.

cheers.

a @ http://codeforpeople.com/
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