From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-05-24T23:56:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Killing a Process started with Kernel.system



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov [mailto:Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 8:20 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Killing a Process started with Kernel.system
> 
> 
> On Tue, 24 May 2005, Gavin Kistner wrote:
> 
> > On May 23, 2005, at 11:40 PM, Martin aus Chemnitz wrote:
> >> Under Windows, I want to start an external program and kill it on 
> >> exitting my Ruby script.
> >>
> >> begin
> >>   $t = Thread.new { system("everlasting") }
> >>   ...
> >> ensure
> >>   $t.kill
> >> end
> >>
> >> does not stop the everlasting program, it stops $t, not its child 
> >> processes. Such a command is urgently needed!
> >
> > Here's a way to kill any process using Win32OLE:
> >
> > require 'win32ole'
> >
> > class WIN32OLE
> >     def to_a
> >         a = []; self.each{ |p| a<<p }; a
> >     end
> > end
> >
> > # Find the process for the player
> > mgmt = WIN32OLE.connect('winmgmts:\\\\.')
> > process = mgmt.InstancesOf("win32_process").to_a.find{ |proc| 
> > proc.name =~ /myapp.exe/ } process.Terminate
> 
> so no way by pid?
> 
> -a

require "win32/open3"

input, out, err, pid = Open4.popen4(command)
...

Process.kill(pid)

Regards,

Dan