From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-02-27T01:34:48+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 22877-23014

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> At Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:34:48 +0900,
> gabriele renzi wrote in [ruby-talk:93740]:
> > >[ruby-dev:22877] Process.spawn & IO.popen without shell
> > >
> > >  Nobuyoshi Nakada proposed a new method Process.spawn.
> > >  This method offers portable interface to spawn processes asynchronously.
> > 
> > yuhu!
> > I always wanted this, even If I thought that should go in Kernel, like
> > fork() and exec(). Why this goes in Process ?
> 
> Well, rather I'll feel nice if there are also those two in
> Process.  Which is better, or both?

both.

i too, have always wanted this.  IO.popen is _ok_ - but for my uses not useful
since i lose stderr.  using open3 has other problems...


-a
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