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From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: IO.popen hanging
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:08:44 +0200
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On 06/11/2013 03:59 PM, Une B=E9vue wrote:
> if i do, on terminal :
>
> echo -n "something" | /usr/bin/xclip -selection c
>
> the time to exec is instantaneous.
>
> however using either :
>
> `echo -n "#{@prefix}" | /usr/bin/xclip -selection c `
>
> or :
>
>      IO.popen(["/usr/bin/xclip","-selection","c"], "w+") do |io|
>        io.write @prefix
>        io.close_write
>        IO.copy_stream(io, $stdout)
>      end
>
>
> @prefix being :
> @prefix=3DTime.new.strftime("%y-%m-%d--%H-%M-%S--")
>
> it takes several minutes...
>
> why ?

I have no idea.  You could try to use strace to show what xclip is doing =

all the time.

Kind regards

	robert