The Ruby Connector -- Long running commands

[jpm]

I call the ruby connector and some commands can take a long time so I changed the code to let me selectively make background threaded calls.
If I make a call and I tell it to run in the background then I fork a new thread and return an OK result immediately.
I plan on then periodically polling to see if the command has completed.

However, although the logic on the Ruby side to fork and return the initial OK result works fine and the rcRun loop is waiting for more input via rcRead the C# side does not get the OK result immediately and instead times out. Upon TIMEOUT the C# side ( TypeAndReply tr = rc.TRSendMsgInputEval(s); ) contains the correct results I sent but I do not understand why I am getting the TIMEOUT.

RESOLVED: although I was redirecting stdin/stdout before/after command evaluation once I forked the background thread its stdout get set back to the stdout read by the ruby connector and it looks like stdout caused the problem.

Thanks
Joe Mooney

[Huw Collingbourne]

Glad you solved that. We were just about to try to figure it out.