From: switheyw@...
Date: 2008-02-27T04:24:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Having trouble reading from stderr


After I generated my own key file and ran your example (except with
gets) and with my key file, the system waited for a few Minutes and
generated this:

poplar% time ./x.rb
ssh: connect to host gatewaymachine.com port 22: Operation timed out

./x.rb  0.00s user 0.01s system 0% cpu 2:14.79 total


If nothing is able to be read from stderr, I suppose the read/gets
call will hang - you might want to put the read of stderr in a
thread.  Something like this:

Thread.new { loop { puts "Err stream: #{stderr.gets}" } }

you can always receive a partial msg by placing the number of bytes to
read in the read call, ie stderr.read(5) ....