I wasn't really happy about my solution, so I continued
experimenting.
I now have something, which I'm quite happy about, I'll post it here,
maybe some people have the same problems as I had.
I expanded the normal IO class:
#-------------------File
OwnIO.rb--------------------------------------
module OwnIO
def killed? #nil if not killed, pid of IO if killed
#I think we do not need this, please correct me, if I am wrong:
#if(self.class != IO) then raise "Wrong type of Input variable, is
#{self.class} but should be IO!" end
begin
Process.waitpid(self.pid,Process::WNOHANG)
rescue Errno::ECHILD #rescue if process is already terminated
self.pid
end
end
def kill #kill a IO (you still have to close it)
Process.kill("KILL",self.pid)
end
end
class IO #add my own IO module to the normal IO class
include OwnIO
end
#---------EOF----------------------------------------------
And here is a short example script (how I'll implement it in my GUI
more or less):
#-------------------test.rb---------------------------------
require "OwnIO.rb"
STDOUT.sync = true
old = nil #old output
i = 0
io = IO.popen("ping google.ch")
io.sync = true
t = Thread.new() {while !io.killed? do Thread.current["line"] =
io.readline end}#first doesn't output all lines (Thread creation too
slow?)
while !io.killed? do
if t["line"]!=old then#only react to changes of the line
old = t["line"]
puts t["line"]#puts the current line
if i==20 then ##kill the io after 20 lines have been received
io.kill
end
i+=1;
end
end
puts "Killed"
···
On 19 Jan., 11:42, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
On 18.01.2008 21:18, Stephen Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 07:56:34PM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
>> 2008/1/18, Deadolus <deado...@gmail.com>:
>>> ...
>>> I read about multithreading, IO.popen would be perfect, but how can I
>>> kill iperf when I want to quit, before iperf ran out of time?
>> ...
>> About the killing I am not sure. With a quick check I did not find
>> a proper way togetthe PID of the child process with IO.popen. If
>> ...
>It'sa little hard to find until you already know whereitis, but
> IO#pid might come in handy here 
Thanks! I use #popen too infrequently and when I useitI do not
normally fiddle with the process directly.
Kind regards
robert
#----------------------------
EOF----------------------------------------
The two functions "killed?" and "kill" are self explanatory, and seem
to work nice.
But at least "killed?" could have some improvements...
So if anybody has some improvements/suggestions to the code: go ahead!
Regards, Deadolus