From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2003-07-15T22:05:21+09:00
Subject: Re: system, `` or exec on Windows?

Ronald Pijnacker wrote:

>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
>  
>
Can't answer all your questions, but I'll share what I got.

First, see http://ruby-talk.com/10006 for some replacement methods for 
`` and system, if you're unable to get the originals to work on Windows. 
Downside as this post mentions (http://ruby-talk.com/blade/41583) is 
that $? is then not set. It also doesn't help you with stderr, although 
there was a recent thread with making a popen3 for Windows, dunno what 
the latest on that is. And thread-safe - dunno either.

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