Spawning processes from Ruby/TK

Hi,

I need to launch an external process from a Tk app. I have a list-box of
file names that should be processes as follows:

listbox.bind('Double-Button-1') {
    file = listbox.get(listbox.curselection)
    errors += `#{cmd % [file]}`
}

This causes a repeated error message:

C:\bin\cygwin\bin\ruby.exe: *** unable to remap
C:\bin\cygwin\bin\tk84.dll to same address as parent(0x8C40000) !=
0x8C50000
4274332 [main] ruby 2584 sync_with_child: child 3260(0x280) died before
initialization with status code 0x1
4274659 [main] ruby 2584 sync_with_child: *** child state child loading
dlls

So do ‘system’ and ‘IO.popen’ calls. ‘exec’ works, but of course
terminates the app.
Any ideas what’s wrong?

Cheers,
Assaph

Hi,

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From: “Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)” assaph@avaya.com
Subject: spawning processes from Ruby/TK
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:22:01 +0900
Message-ID: 338366A6D2E2CA4C9DAEAE652E12A1DE166D57@au3010avexu1.global.avaya.com

I need to launch an external process from a Tk app. I have a list-box of
file names that should be processes as follows:

listbox.bind('Double-Button-1') {
    file = listbox.get(listbox.curselection)
    errors += `#{cmd % [file]}`
}

This causes a repeated error message:

Which version of Ruby do you use?
If you use 1.6.x, the problem maybe fixed on more recent versions.
On my linux environment, 1.6.7 freezes and CVS Head completes properly.

                              Hidetoshi NAGAI (nagai@ai.kyutech.ac.jp)

I need to launch an external process from a Tk app. I have a list-box of
file names that should be processes as follows:

listbox.bind('Double-Button-1') {
    file = listbox.get(listbox.curselection)
    errors += `#{cmd % [file]}`
}

“unable to remap” is probably cygwin’s problem which has solution on its own

searching in cygwin gives result and here is “c” program for “rebase”

···

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/*

  • Copyright (c) 2001 Jason Tishler
  • This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  • modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
  • as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
  • of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  • This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  • but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  • MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
  • GNU General Public License for more details.
  • You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  • along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  • Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307,
    USA.
  • $Id: rebase.cc,v 1.5 2001/12/18 20:21:19 jtishler Exp $
    */

#include
#include
#include
#include <time.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <getopt.h>
#include <sys/cygwin.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <imagehlp.h>

using namespace std;

string PosixToWin32(const string& aPosixPath);
void ParseArgs(int argc, char* argv);
unsigned long StringToUlong(const string& aString);
void Usage();

ULONG theImageBase = 0;
BOOL theDownFlag = FALSE;
ULONG theOffset = 0;
int theArgsIndex = 0;

void
main(int argc, char* argv)
{
ParseArgs(argc, argv);
ULONG aNewImageBase = theImageBase;

for (int i = theArgsIndex; i < argc; i++)
{
if (theDownFlag)
aNewImageBase -= theOffset;

string aFile = PosixToWin32(argv[i]);
ULONG anOldImageSize, anOldImageBase, aNewImageSize;
ULONG aPrevNewImageBase = aNewImageBase;
BOOL aStatus = ReBaseImage(
const_cast<char*>(aFile.c_str()), // CurrentImageName
0, // SymbolPath
TRUE, // fReBase
FALSE, // fRebaseSysfileOk
theDownFlag, // fGoingDown
0, // CheckImageSize
&anOldImageSize, // OldImageSize
&anOldImageBase, // OldImageBase
&aNewImageSize, // NewImageSize
&aNewImageBase, // NewImageBase
time(0)); // TimeStamp

// ReBaseImage seems to never returns false!
DWORD aStatus2 = GetLastError();
if (aStatus2 != 0)
{
cerr << "ReBaseImage() failed with last error = " <<
GetLastError() << endl;
exit(2);
}
cout << aFile << hex << ": new base = " <<
((theDownFlag) ? aNewImageBase : aPrevNewImageBase) <<
", new size = " << aNewImageSize + theOffset << endl;

if (!theDownFlag)
aNewImageBase += theOffset;
}

exit(0);
}

string
PosixToWin32(const string& aPosixPath)
{
char aWin32Path[MAX_PATH];
cygwin_conv_to_win32_path(aPosixPath.c_str(), aWin32Path);
return aWin32Path;
}

void
ParseArgs(int argc, char* argv)
{
const char* anOptions = “b:do:”;
for (int anOption; (anOption = getopt(argc, argv, anOptions)) != -1;)
{
switch (anOption)
{
case ‘b’:
theImageBase = StringToUlong(optarg);
break;
case ‘d’:
theDownFlag = TRUE;
break;
case ‘o’:
theOffset = StringToUlong(optarg);
break;
default:
Usage();
exit(1);
break;
}
}

if (theImageBase == 0)
{
Usage();
exit(1);
}

theArgsIndex = optind;
}

unsigned long
StringToUlong(const string& aString)
{
stringstream ss;
unsigned long aUlong;
string::size_type anIndex = aString.find(“0x”);
if (anIndex == 0)
ss << hex << string(aString, 2, aString.size() - 2);
else
ss << aString;
ss >> aUlong;
return aUlong;
}

void
Usage()
{
cerr << “usage: rebase -b BaseAddress [-d] -o Offset ImageFileName …” <<
endl;
}

=================

This causes a repeated error message:

C:\bin\cygwin\bin\ruby.exe: *** unable to remap
C:\bin\cygwin\bin\tk84.dll to same address as parent(0x8C40000) !=
0x8C50000
4274332 [main] ruby 2584 sync_with_child: child 3260(0x280) died before
initialization with status code 0x1
4274659 [main] ruby 2584 sync_with_child: *** child state child loading
dlls