From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2008-04-09T05:52:15+09:00
Subject: Re: System commands with streaming output

Alex Wayne wrote:
> So it looks the block passed to popen isnt even getting called until the 
> command that it invokes exits.  Then the variable passed into the block 
> is the entire output of that command?

It seems possible that there is some buffering going on. Perhaps 
somebody else will have a better idea.

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