ProcessTail Build Status

https://github.com/hibariya/process_tail

Description

ProcessTail traces other process' write(2) system call and copy its buffer. So you can get other process outputs.

Problems

  • Mac OSX and Windows are not supported at the moment
  • SEGV occures occasionally
  • Multithreaded process support

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'process_tail'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install process_tail

Usage

ProcessTail.open pid, :stdout do |io|
  puts "Recent stdout of #{pid}: #{io.gets}"
end

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/hibariya/process_tail/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request