From: Shashank Date <shanko_date@...>
Date: 2004-08-17T07:09:10+09:00
Subject: Re: fork/exec ShellExecute


--- Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:

> This will wait for myApp to close:
> 
>    system("myApp")

And if you want to capture stdout you can also do
back-quoting:

output = `myapp`

or 

output = %x{myapp}


wherever there is system("myapp")

> Other ruby threads will keep running. If you want
> the main ruby thread 
> to keep running, too, just do this:
> 
>    th = Thread.new do
>      system("myApp")
>    end
> 
>    # do some stuff
> 
>    th.join # wait for myApp to close
> 
>    # then do something else
> 
> 



		
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