From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2008-02-20T10:56:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange Windows warning with IO.popen: The process tried to write 	to a nonexistent pipe

Luis Lavena wrote:
> On Feb 19, 8:02 pm, Daniel Berger <djber...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Ruby 1.8.6
>> Windows XP Pro
>>
>> I tried this standalone snippet:
>>
>> io = IO.popen('date /t')
>>
>> Running that with -w I get this warning:
>>
>> The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe
>>
> 
> I got the same without the -w option.
> 
> This is related to the redirection of stdio and stdout and the
> premature termination of them (in the child process spawn by ruby).
> 
> If you add a Kernel.gets() or anything that delays the script
> termiantion you wouldn't get the warning.

So, how do we fix it Luis?

Regards,

Dan