From: "Joel F." <jfreeman88@...>
Date: 2011-02-17T06:14:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading/writing to spawned process

Yeah it's a bit funky.  I tried on the ruby I use at work:

ruby 1.9.2p136 (2010-12-25) [i386-mingw32]

which turns out is the same of yours.  This one has nread and ready? 
both implemented, but both broken.  My version at home that I was using 
before was slightly older I think...so it's probably the case that 
IO/wait is a work in progress and with each version they make it 
slightly less damaged, lol.

If on Windows you didn't see them, it might be that you forgot the 
'require IO/wait'.  These methods belong to the IO method, but I think 
you need the require to "extend" the IO class (can't remember the word 
for Ruby modifying classes, but you know what I mean).

It's probably just best to stick with IO.stat.size for now. It's not an 
obvious way to express things, but its worked so far.

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