From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2005-10-19T08:15:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Killing Threads & Processes on Windows

Hi,

At Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:44:35 +0900,
x1 wrote in [ruby-talk:161230]:
> x = Thread.new { system("c:/program files/internet explorer/iexplore.exe") }
> x.alive # Works
> 
> why doesnt x.kill actually "kill" internet explorer? When I think of
> kill, I think of "gone" as in *nix gone.

A thread and a process spawned within it are not related.

> x = IO.popen("c:/program files/internet explorer/iexplore.exe")
> x.close

IO#close try to send a signal to the process, however, the
problem is no signal mechanism across processes on Windows,
unless the target has a console.

-- 
Nobu Nakada