From: Ronald Pijnacker <rhp@...>
Date: 2003-07-15T17:46:31+09:00
Subject: system, `` or exec on Windows?

Hi all,

What is the easiest (or any) way to do the following with Ruby on
Windows:

- execute a child process
- get the output written to stdout and stderr (as with `<command>`)
- also get the exit code ($?)
- in a thread safe way

On unix I would probably revert to using a pipe, fork and waitpid2. 
However, fork does not seem to be available (understandably) on Windows. 
Any other options I missed?

Is $? thread safe?

  Ronald.