On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Chet Ramey <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 4/11/17 5:22 PM, Eric Thompson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >    I ran into a possible problem in readline developing a library for
> Rake
> > to aid in managing and launching processes.
> >
> > basically, if you use (ruby) Process.spawn or other ways to launch a
> > subprocess that don't detach and that process inherits the stdin default
> > pipe of the parent, the terminal input gets corrupted before hitting the
> > child process (if that child is using readline).
>
> All indications are that you have multiple processes simultaneously
> attempting to read from stdin.
>

maybe.  that's not how ruby Process is supposed to work.  in addition, this
isn't an issue when using alternatives to gnu readline (editline,
rb-readline).


>
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> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    [email protected]    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~
> chet/
>



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