From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-06-07T17:12:09+09:00
Subject: Re: redirecting stdin for 3. party program

2010/6/3 Thomas Secret <martin.gerdes@directbox.com>:
> Thank you thank you thank you :-)
>
> Buffering by mawk simply wasn't something that crossed my mind at all.
> With your ruby line it walks flawlessly.
>
> For anyone interested: mawk needs the Option "-W interactive" do process
> input as it arrives...
>
> And I dumbly and persistently searched for the problem on the ruby
> side...

Thomas, why do you use IO.pipe and fork instead of IO.popen or Open3.popen3?

Kind regards

robert

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