Exit status of IO.popen process

[Sean_O_Dell]

How do you get the exit status of a process opened with IO.popen?

Process.waitpid seems to only return the pid of the process; the exit
status isn’t returned.

Sean O'Dell

[Nobuyoshi_Nakada]

Hi,

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At Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:47:13 +0900, Sean O’Dell wrote:

How do you get the exit status of a process opened with IO.popen?

Process.waitpid seems to only return the pid of the process; the exit
status isn’t returned.

Refer $?

IO.popen(“read x;exit $x”,“r+”){|f|f.puts(“10”)}
p $? #=> 2560 == 10<<8

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Nobu Nakada