popen3 + bash surprise

[Aleksandr Levchuk]

It was surprising when the following code froze:

require 'open3'
i, o, e = Open3:open3('/bin/bash')
c = o.getc
puts c.chr # expecting the first character of my bash prompt


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[ara.t.howard]

It was surprising when the following code froze:

require 'open3'
i, o, e = Open3:open3('/bin/bash')
c = o.getc
puts c.chr # expecting the first character of my bash prompt

man bash: it behaves differently depending on whether it's a login shell or
not and whether connected to a tty or not. you may want to try out my session
lib

harp:~ > cat a.rb
require 'rubygems' # gem install session - http://rubyforge.org/projects/codeforpeople/
require 'session'

bash = Session::Bash.new

stdout, stderr = bash.execute 'export a=42'

stdout, stderr = bash.execute 'echo $a'
puts stdout

bash.execute 'date', :stdout => STDOUT



harp:~ > ruby a.rb
42
Tue Jan 9 08:00:47 MST 2007


regards.

-a