From: Jean-Hugues ROBERT <jean_hugues_robert@...>
Date: 2002-06-14T16:10:38+09:00
Subject: Windows, system() & popen() not functionning, v165-2



Hello,

I am using the Windows distrib from Pragmatic Programmers,
apparently v165-2 (cygwin based I think).

On my WinME, system() & popen() don't work. They freeze the machine for
a few seconds and then a .readlines() on the file descr is stuck
until a potential enclosing timeout() raise an exception.

Here is the code:
       #IO::popen( "fgrep -hE ../../.., *.rb") do |fd|
       system( "fgrep -hE ../../.., *.rb > tmp.tmp")
       File.open( "tmp.tmp") do |fd|
         @statusMsg << fd.readlines.sort()
       end

Anybody else who experienced that before ?

Thanks,

Jean-Hugues


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