[TxMt] tm_dialog and really long plists

[Allan Odgaard]

On 26. Apr 2007, at 21:13, James Edward Gray II wrote:

>> When you want to both send and receive stdin/out to/from a  
>> command, you need to use popen3.
> Is that true?  I thought that's only if we needed stderr too.
>> For example like this (untested):
>> [...]
> What's wrong with:
>
>   IO.popen('"$DIALOG" -m select_photoset') do |dialog|
>     dialog << plist
>     dialog.close_write
>     res = PropertyList::load(dialog)
>   end
>
> ?

Oh yeah, that should work -- just the stdlib popen doesn’t do  
bidirectional pipes, but the Ruby one of course does not suffer from  
that :)