From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-09-20T02:14:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Handling multiple processes on Windows

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> Gregory Brown wrote:
>
>> So my question is, how exactly would you go about writing a program
>> that could fire a process to a command line application, let it run,
>> give control back to your main program, and kill the process if an
>> event occurs (Like the pressing of a 'stop' button or even command line
>> interaction).
>>
>> I thought about threading but since the threads are done in process I'm
>> afraid of explosions and complications galore.
>
> Use a ruby thread to manage the external process. There are some libs
> for this (session is one, I think it will give you better access to
> in/out/err streams). But ruby itself has some basic support:
>
> cmd_th = Thread.new do
>  system "something"
> end
>
> if user_presses_stop
>  cmd_th.kill
> end

session could be ported to windows using the win32-popen3 call.  volunteers?

-a
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