From: Denis Berezhnoy <denis.berezhnoy@...>
Date: 2009-09-11T17:12:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Can not catch PTY::ChildExited exception

Denis Berezhnoy wrote:
> Ehsanul Hoque wrote:
>> Well, I'm sure I have nowhere as good an idea of PTY.spawn() as 
>> Matsumoto does, but let me try to explain what your code is doing, and 
>> how to get your desired result.
>> 
>> First, you might want to consider using other methods for what you're 
>> doing. You probably don't really need a pseudo terminal, which is what 
>> PTY gives you, and you can use more well documented methods. 
> 
> Hi Ehsan,
> 
> Thanks for detailed explanation. The reason why I use PTY is because I
> need to interact with application that does not flush its output to
> pipe.  So when I use IO.popen or IO.pipe there is no output.
> 
> PTY.spawn() solves this problem so I use it intentionally.
> 
> Best regards,
> Denis

Hi Ehsan,

One more question.   Can I use Process.wait to wait for termination of 
the process which was run by PTY.spawn?

Best regards,
Denis
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