From: Robert Klemme Date: 2010-06-28T23:50:23+09:00 Subject: Re: redirecting the end of a pipe 2010/6/28 Thomas Secret : > Thank you for your answer. You're welcome. > I've now done precisely what I had hoped to avoid: Keep polling for new > input, and pass on anything I get. As I don't control the child, > apparently the only thing I can do. At least it works... IMHO "polling" is not exactly the right term for this. Rather you read and block until more data is available - unless you use non blocking IO. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/