From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-06-18T05:55:52+09:00
Subject: Re: launch external program

Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 17.06.2009 16:02, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
>>   output = ""
>>   t = Thread.new { output << `somecmd` }
>>   ...
>>   t.alive? or puts "The full output is:", output
> 
> You can do this as well:
> 
> t = Thread.new { `somecmd` }
> ...
> output = t.value

Thread#value blocks while the thread is running, though.

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