From: MikkelFJ <mikkelj-anti-spam@...1.dknet.dk>
Date: 2001-12-19T23:50:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28922] Re: stderr from external process?

> I still have one issue though: The program doesn't terminate. Admittely I
> don't know much about these process issues, but I would expect the write
> processes to terminate when the main program closes the pipes.
>
> Any suggestions?

Well - cmd needs the exit command for the process to terminate.

and ls, gcc can be called, but you have to use forward slashes as in

sin, sout, serr = Open3.popen3("d:/cygwin/bin/gcc.exe --help")


Mikkel