From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@...>
Date: 2010-06-27T12:49:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:30914] Re: interrupted system calls aren't 	interrupted?

>> I've noticed that
>>
>> Timeout::timeout(1) {
>> �system("some long process")
>> }
>>
>> after the block is executed, "some long process" continues to run. �Is
>> this expected, or a bug?
>
> Expected. �Timeout.timeout dones't know the child process. �You
> need to kill it by yourself.

I wonder how that would be possible seeing as $? is not set to its pid
because it never terminated, though...
-r