From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-03-31T09:02:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting process id of started process

I've attatched code and test code at
http://rafb.net/paste/results/2Rj4rb87.html , if someone wants to take
a look.  Hopefully it's clear about what I want to do.


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:57:51 -0800, Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Say I want to start a long running shell process (and monitor that process).
> 
>     def start_process
>         @process_id = fork do
>             Kernel.system "cat /dev/zero > /dev/null"
>         end
>     end
> 
> However, @process_id doesn't contain the pid of the cat process.  How
> can I capture the pid of that process?
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe
>