From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-10-18T06:00:51+09:00
Subject: Re: popen in non-blocking mode

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Jared Grippe
<ruby-forum.com@deadlyicon.com> wrote:
> this worked for me but is kind of lame

Daniel's point is that you can do what you want in the Ruby script: it
won't work if you cannot convince the other process to flush its
output quicker (see initial posting of the thread).

> Daniel DeLorme wrote in post #567176:
>> ara.t.howard wrote:
>>> the general concepts are:
>>>
>>> IO.popen cmd, 'r+' do |pipe|
>>>   pipe.sync = true ### you can do this once
>>
>> Except that doesn't work. If the subprocess doesn't flush its output,
>> setting sync to true won't change anything.

Cheers

robert

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