From: Daniel Bretoi <lists@...>
Date: 2003-01-25T04:09:53+09:00
Subject: Re: exit status, stderr and stdout

Hm, do you know if anyone intends to fix this or if it has been fixed in
newer versions? 

I ended up having to do it in perl because of the lack of ability to do
that.

db

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:31:23AM +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Fri, 24 Jan 2003 08:33:11 +0900,
> Daniel Bretoi wrote:
> > In perl, I was able to do this,
> > 
> >    my $pid = open3($wtr, $rdr, $err, "ls ---");
> > waitpid($pid,WNOHANG);
> > warn $? >> 8;
> > 
> > however, looking at the code for open3.rb it doesn't seem possible to
> > capture the pid (infact, it seems to be completely discarded).
> 
> Sorry, I've forgotten that I'm using modified version of
> open3.rb, due to get rid of that very problem.
> 


> 
> -- 
> Nobu Nakada


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