From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2005-04-27T23:46:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Starting and stopping a child process in Windows

Hi,

At Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:46:11 +0900,
Alexey Verkhovsky wrote in [ruby-talk:139984]:
> What is the best / most reliable / most obvious way to start and kill a child process under Windows?
> This child process happens to be a Webrick application, and I don't care about being platform-dependent in this case.

With 1.9 feature:

  $ ruby -v -e 'pid = spawn("cmd.exe"); sleep 3; Process.kill("TERM", pid); puts; p Process.waitpid(pid); p $?'
  ruby 1.9.0 (2005-04-22) [i386-cygwin]
  Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
  (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

  c:\ruby>
  2140
  #<Process::Status: pid=2140,signaled(SIGTERM=15)>

-- 
Nobu Nakada