From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2005-04-27T23:59:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Starting and stopping a child process in Windows

Hi,

At Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:53:52 +0900,
Berger, Daniel wrote in [ruby-talk:140048]:
> > 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?

Which?  I just use built-in method, and it works on other
platforms almost too, except for DJGPP and a few.

-- 
Nobu Nakada