From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-05-14T12:43:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Open4::popen4

On Fri, 14 May 2004 nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> At Fri, 14 May 2004 03:33:56 +0900,
> Ara.T.Howard wrote in [ruby-talk:100167]:
> > blatant rip-off of Open3::popen3 - does anyone think something like this might
> > be useful (to have a handle on the spawned processes' pid?)
> 
> wait(2) can't wait a grand child process.  It doesn't seem so
> useful.

what i had wanted was

  Process.kill -9, gcid

i didn't know that about wait(2)...

-a
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