Open4-0.2.0

Ruby
1

URIS

http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1024
http://www.codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/

SYNOPSIS

open child process with handles on pid, stdin, stdout, and stderr

HISTORY

0.2.0 :
- added exception marshaled from child → parent when exec fails.
thanks
to jordan breeding for a patch (yay!) and paul brannan for this
most
excellent idea.

0.1.0 :
- fixed docs to correctly show return value of popen4 (pid first
not last).
thanks Stefanie T. [email protected] for catching this.
0.0.0 :
- initial version

INSTALL

~> gem install open4

SAMPLES

simple usage:

 jib:~/eg/ruby/open4/open4-0.2.0 > cat sample/simple.rb
 require "open4"

 pid, stdin, stdout, stderr = Open4::popen4 "sh"

 stdin.puts "echo 42.out"
 stdin.puts "echo 42.err 1>&2"
 stdin.close

 ignored, status = Process::waitpid2 pid

 puts "pid        : #{ pid }"
 puts "stdout     : #{ stdout.read.strip }"
 puts "stderr     : #{ stderr.read.strip }"
 puts "status     : #{ status.inspect }"
 puts "exitstatus : #{ status.exitstatus }"


 jib:~/eg/ruby/open4/open4-0.2.0 > ruby sample/simple.rb
 pid        : 17273
 stdout     : 42.out
 stderr     : 42.err
 status     : #<Process::Status: pid=17273,exited(0)>
 exitstatus : 0

block form - child process is automatically waited for:

 jib:~/eg/ruby/open4/open4-0.2.0 > cat sample/block.rb
 require 'open4'

 status =
   Open4::popen4("sh") do |pid, stdin, stdout, stderr|
     stdin.puts "echo 42.out"
     stdin.puts "echo 42.err 1>&2"
     stdin.close

     puts "pid        : #{ pid }"
     puts "stdout     : #{ stdout.read.strip }"
     puts "stderr     : #{ stderr.read.strip }"
   end

     puts "status     : #{ status.inspect }"
     puts "exitstatus : #{ status.exitstatus }"


 jib:~/eg/ruby/open4/open4-0.2.0 > ruby sample/block.rb
 pid        : 17295
 stdout     : 42.out
 stderr     : 42.err
 status     : #<Process::Status: pid=17295,exited(0)>
 exitstatus : 0

exceptions are marshaled from child to parent if fork/exec fails:

 jib:~/eg/ruby/open4/open4-0.2.0 > cat sample/exception.rb
 require "open4"
 Open4::popen4 "noexist"


 jib:~/eg/ruby/open4/open4-0.2.0 > ruby sample/exception.rb
 /dmsp/reference/ruby-1.8.1//lib/ruby/site_ruby/open4.rb:100:in

`popen4’: No such file or directory - noexist (Errno::ENOENT)
from sample/exception.rb:3

AUTHOR

[email protected]

LICENSE

ruby’s

enjoy.

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