From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2007-10-07T14:59:44+09:00
Subject: Re: popen in non-blocking mode

Hi,

At Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:17:40 +0900,
Urizev wrote in [ruby-talk:272872]:
> I want to execute a program which prompts for commads from standard
> input and returns responses to standard output, this process repeats
> several times. I want to execute it from a ruby application. I tried
> to use a popen call to do it, but it do not flush the output until
> input channel is closed. I need to know what the process request
> before sending a response.

Use PTY.

-- 
Nobu Nakada