From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-04-27T23:53:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Starting and stopping a child process in Windows

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobu.nokada@softhome.net [mailto:nobu.nokada@softhome.net] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 8:47 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> 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)>

Which of the many flavors of spawn are you using on Win32?  And how does
it work on Unix?

Regards,

Dan