From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2005-12-18T15:02:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Spawning

On Sunday 18 December 2005 12:36 am, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Sunday 18 December 2005 12:09 am, James Edward Gray II wrote:
> > On Dec 17, 2005, at 10:56 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > > I want to translate it to Ruby, but I can't find an
> > > equivalent to Perl's setsid anywhere in the Kernel module.
> >
> > I believe you are looking for Process.setsid.
> >
> >    ri Process.setsid
> >
> > James Edward Gray II
>
> Thanks James.
>
> That works! I can run it from a terminal, close the terminal, and
> the spawned program containues running. This is the exact
> behavior I need. However...
>
> I have one other problem. Somehow I cannot use exec on my array
> of arguments -- only on the very first one (the program name).
> This means I can't pass arguments to the spawned program.

I got it to work with a kludge:

exec argarray.join(' ')

I converted the array of arguments to a string, and it worked. But 
it should have worked the other way too. What am I missing?

SteveT



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