win32utils devel - Feb 2004 - RE: BUG report: win32-process

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Date, Shashank [Non-Employee] 
> [mailto:Shashank.Date@mail.sprint.com] 
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 11:04 AM
> To: Berger, Daniel
> Cc: phasis@nownuri.net
> Subject: BUG report: win32-process
> 
> 
> gets does not work in the forked process.
> 
> See win32 and cygwin transcripts below:
> 
> #---------------------------------------------
> require ''win32/process''
> include Win32
> STDOUT.sync = true
> 
> # In the child, using block form
> Win32::Process.fork do
>    5.times { |i|
>       k = 0
>       puts "Child: #{i}"
>       puts "Hit the ENTER key now >"
>       gets
>    }
> end
> 
> # Back in the parent
> 4.times{ |i|
>    puts "Parent: #{i}"
>    sleep 1
> }
> 
> Win32::Process.wait
> 
> puts "Continuing on..."
> 
> __END__
> Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.
> 
> C:\atest>ruby -v tst_win32_process.rb
> ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-mswin32]
> Parent: 0
> Child: 0
> Hit the ENTER key now >
> C:/atest/tst_win32_process.rb:11:in `gets'': No such file or 
> directory - child (Errno::ENOENT)
>         from C:/atest/tst_win32_process.rb:11
>         from C:/atest/tst_win32_process.rb:7:in `times''
>         from C:/atest/tst_win32_process.rb:7
>         from C:/atest/tst_win32_process.rb:6:in `fork''
>         from C:/atest/tst_win32_process.rb:6
> Parent: 1
> Parent: 2
> Parent: 3
> Continuing on...
> 
> C:\atest>
> 
> #---------------------------------------------
> 
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby -v
> # CYGWIN 
> 
> STDOUT.sync = true
> 
> # In the child, using block form
> Process.fork do
>    5.times { |i|
>       k = 0
>       puts "Child: #{i}"
>       puts "Hit the ENTER key now >"
>       gets
>    }
> end
> 
> # Back in the parent
> 4.times{ |i|
>    puts "Parent: #{i}"
>    sleep 1
> }
> 
> Process.wait
> puts ''Done''
> 
> __END__
> 
> $ tst_process.rb
> ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-cygwin]
> Parent: 0
> Child: 0
> Hit the ENTER key now >
> Parent: 1
> Parent: 2
> Parent: 3
> 
> Child: 1
> Hit the ENTER key now >
> 
> Child: 2
> Hit the ENTER key now >
> 
> Child: 3
> Hit the ENTER key now >
> 
> Child: 4
> Hit the ENTER key now >
> 
> Done
> 
> $ 
Try "STDIN.gets" which worked for my on my XP box.  This seems to be
an
issue with Ruby itself that has come up on the mailing list before.  I
don''t think it''s a fork issue.

Dan