From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-05-11T06:46:51+09:00
Subject: Re: capture output in real time


On May 10, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Paul Winward wrote:
> I found a perl solution at http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=305812  
> that
> makes use of pseudo tty to get line-buffered output.  Unfortunately, I
> can find very little documentation on how to use the ruby module PTY,
> and it looks like it is no longer supported
> (http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/134771#new).  Also, I wonder if a
> pseudo tty can capture stderr as well
> (http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.programmer/2003-07/0544.html 
> )
>
> The perl solution is system dependent, but it worked for me on Linux
> 2.6.22.  I did see a debian package  libpty-ruby but I don't see any
> documentation and am not sure if this is still supported.
>
> The notion of a pseudo tty is new to me and I'd appreciate any  
> help.  Is
> there a ruby equivalent for the perl solution below?

pty is supported and the dist has a bunch of demo code in it (ext/pty/ 
*) but you cannot capture stderr akaikt.

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