From: nobu.nokada@... Date: 2005-06-27T08:16:49+09:00 Subject: Re: speeding up Process.detach frequency Hi, At Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:53:04 +0900, gwtmp01@mac.com wrote in [ruby-talk:146522]: > If the goal is simply to prevent zombie processes, then Process#detach > should just do a double fork. Here is an implementation of that > technique along with a couple other issues that are common when > creating a detached process (a daemon in Unix terminology): Open3 does it and it makes impossible to get the result of the given command. -- Nobu Nakada