From: Paul Brannan <paul@...>
Date: 2002-03-13T04:51:19+09:00
Subject: Re: gzip again...

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:04:19AM +0900, Massimiliano Mirra wrote:
> But it won't allow me to read unless I close_write it first, after
> which of course it is no longer possible to write to it, so the
> following will hange at the first gz.read:

Have you considered using popen3 instead of popen?

  require 'open3'
  in, out, err = Open3.popen3('ls -l')

Paul