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Created April 26, 2011 23:05
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require 'rubygems'
require "open4"
require "stringio"
require "ruby-debug"
n = 424242
muchoutput = %( ruby -e' #{ n }.times { $stderr << 42.to_s }' )
stdin, stdout, stderr = '', '', ''
status = Open4.spawn(muchoutput, :stdin => stdin, :stdout => stdout, :stderr => stderr)
p "stdout : #{ stdout[0,128] }"
p "stderr : #{ stderr[0,128] }"
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