From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-01-14T09:05:33+09:00
Subject: Re: system? exec? fork? thread?  Help managing external process

Hi,

From: "McMahon, Chris" <chris.mcmahon@verint.com>
> I'm new to Ruby and I need some help with managing an external
> process.  I'm on Windows, and I want to do something (overly simplified)
> like this: 
> 
> File.new(file_to_be_handled_by_outside_process.txt)
> system ("C:\\filewatcher.exe file_to_be_handled_by_outside_process.txt")
> <write stuff to file_to_be_handled_by_outside_process.txt>
> 
> The foreign process started by system() never stops.  I need to
> return control to the Ruby script after the system() call so that I can
> have the Ruby script generate information for the foreign process to
> handle.  

Might be able to do it with "start", like:

 system ("start C:\\filewatcher.exe file_to_be_handled_by_outside_process.txt")


Hope this helps,

Regards,

Bill