From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-02-17T09:14:56+09:00
Subject: Re: controlling external process' stdin/stdout AND getting its return value

Hi,

At Tue, 17 Feb 2004 06:14:57 +0900,
Ara.T.Howard wrote in [ruby-talk:92997]:
> it's tricky to manage stdout, stderr, _and_ exit status since with popen you
> lose the sense of $?.  

$? will be set when the pipe is closed.

-- 
Nobu Nakada