Closing files opened with Open3.popen

[Francis Hwang]

Is there anyway to close a file that I opened with Open3.popen ? I'm
running a lot of external process (and capturing their stderr), but if
the process runs too long eventually I get a "Too many open files"
error.

Francis

 

[Ara.T.Howard]

Is there anyway to close a file that I opened with Open3.popen ? I'm running
a lot of external process (and capturing their stderr), but if the process
runs too long eventually I get a "Too many open files" error.

Francis

not sure i understand but:

~ > ruby -r open3 -e 'ios = Open3:open3 "sh"; system "ps"; ios.map{|io| io.close}; system "ps"'

PID TTY TIME CMD
5379 pts/5 00:00:00 bash
6681 pts/5 00:00:00 ruby
6683 pts/5 00:00:00 sh
6684 pts/5 00:00:00 ps

PID TTY TIME CMD
5379 pts/5 00:00:00 bash
6681 pts/5 00:00:00 ruby
6685 pts/5 00:00:00 ps


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[Paul Brannan]

Is there anyway to close a file that I opened with Open3.popen ? I'm
running a lot of external process (and capturing their stderr), but if
the process runs too long eventually I get a "Too many open files"
error.

Use IO#close.

Paul