From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2005-09-20T09:31:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Handling multiple processes on Windows

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> 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

I think you just did.  I'll setup your account. ;)

Dan