From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-05-08T19:52:35+09:00
Subject: Re: IO.pipe + thread = hangs (was: Re: capture output)

Hi,

At Thu, 8 May 2003 16:49:22 +0900,
Robert Klemme wrote:
> A bit more testing reveals that this seems to be a problem of the mswin
> version:

IO multiplexing on pipes doesn't work on Windows.  It's a known
restriction.

> I noticed also, that closing STDERR or $stderr does seem to close STDOUT,
> too.  Is this intended behavior or is it a known bug?

Neither.  Could you detail?  This worked for me, at least.

$ ruby16-mswin -e 'STDERR.close; puts "hello"'
hello

-- 
Nobu Nakada