From: Richard Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2003-01-01T01:35:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] win32_popen 0.1

quick question on this library...how would one interrupt a running 
(popen'ed) process if it got hung up, etc?

-rich

On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 02:01 AM, Park Heesob wrote:

> Hi, all.
>
> win32_popen is popen2,popen3,popen4 implementation on Windows adapted 
> from
> Python source code.
>
> You can use win32_popen3 like this:
>
> require 'win32_popen'
>
> fin,fout,ferr = IO.win32_popen3("date")
> puts fout.gets
> fin.print "2002-01-01\n"
> while !fout.eof
> puts fout.gets
> end
>
> fin,fout,ferr = IO.win32_popen3("irb")
>
> begin
> a = fout.getc
> putc a.chr
> end while a != ?>
>
> fin.print "exit\n"
>
> while !fout.eof
> puts fout.gets
> end
>
>
> You can download mswin binary for your Ruby version.
> http://home.nownuri.net/~phasis/popen/win32_popen_1.6.8.zip
> http://home.nownuri.net/~phasis/popen/win32_popen_1.8.0.zip
> Souce code and binary included.
>
> [Requirement]
>
> * Ruby 1.6.5+
>
> It may be made with other version but not verified.
>
> [Install binary]
>
>> ruby install.rb
>
> [Install from source]
>
>> ruby extconf.rb
>> nmake
>> ruby install.rb
>
> [methods]
>
> IO#win32_popen2(cmd[, mode])
> Executes cmd as a sub-process. Returns the file objects (child_stdin,
> child_stdout).
>
> IO#win32_popen3(cmd[, mode])
> Executes cmd as a sub-process. Returns the file objects (child_stdin,
> child_stdout, child_stderr).
>
> IO#win32_popen4(cmd[, mode]])
> Executes cmd as a sub-process. Returns the file objects (child_stdin,
> child_stdout_and_stderr).
>
> Regards.
>
> Park Heesob
>
>
>
>
>