From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-05-25T03:42:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Killing a Process started with Kernel.system

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Berger, Daniel wrote:

> require "win32/open3"
>
> input, out, err, pid = Open4.popen4(command)
> ...
>
> Process.kill(pid)
>
> Regards,

awesome!  so can do something like this from now on to make code
semi-portable?

   begin
     require 'open4'
   rescue
     require "win32/open3"
   end

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

it would be great to wrap this up and get it into ruby - that way there would
be a standard way to write portable (in some fashion) programs that spawn
external commands.  my current project, dirwatch, which watches a directory
for events and spawns user defined actions for them needs just such a thing.

thanks tons!

-a
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