From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2002-09-24T21:49:22+09:00
Subject: Re: fork problem?

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Meng, Ted wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >From Unix command line, I did this
>
> mkfifo fifo
> readProgram fifo &
> writeProgram fifo
>
> fifo acts as a named pipe between the read and write program.
>
> in Ruby, I did the following
>
> fork { exec readProgram fifo}
> system writeProgram fifo
>
> This worked but the performance is much slower than the Unix commandline.

So how is:

  fork { exec readProgram fifo}
  exec writeProgram fifo

in comparison?

>
> Any idea?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Ted
>
        Hugh