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). > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~ > chet/ > -- eric thompson qa (hc)erict (t)@er0ck (gh)er0ck ¤-■-¤ puppet: The shortest path to better software. PuppetConf 2017 <https://puppet.com/puppetconf>, 10-12 October San Francisco, California Save $328, register by 30 June w/ early adopter discount
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