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authordrbrain <drbrain@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2006-08-04 22:00:31 +0000
committerdrbrain <drbrain@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2006-08-04 22:00:31 +0000
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Merge RDoc changes from HEAD.
git-svn-id: http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/branches/ruby_1_8@10679 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
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# which IO#popen does not allow)
#
# Usage:
-# require "open3"
#
-# stdin, stdout, stderr = Open3.popen3('nroff -man')
-# or
-# include Open3
-# stdin, stdout, stderr = popen3('nroff -man')
+# require "open3"
+#
+# stdin, stdout, stderr = Open3.popen3('nroff -man')
+#
+# or:
+#
+# include Open3
+#
+# stdin, stdout, stderr = popen3('nroff -man')
+#
+# popen3 can also take a block which will receive stdin, stdout and stderr as
+# parameters. This ensures stdin, stdout and stderr are closed once the block
+# exits.
+#
+# Such as:
+#
+# Open3.popen3('nroff -man') { |stdin, stdout, stderr| ... }
module Open3
#[stdin, stdout, stderr] = popen3(command);