From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-05-10T09:14:54+09:00
Subject: Re: capture output in real time


On May 9, 2008, at 6:08 PM, Paul Winward wrote:
>
> Note, I'm avoiding STDOUT.flush in sleep.rb since I won't be able to
> change the actual scripts I'll be passing to popen3.

popen3 is going to be using fork/exec under the hood and should  
inherit the sync setting of STDOUT, so try setting

   STDOUT.sync = true

before the popen and see if that helps - untested, but i'm running out  
the door....

cheers.

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