From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2006-03-03T04:33:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Process management and control

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tim.hennekey@gmail.com [mailto:tim.hennekey@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 11:14 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Process management and control
> 
> 
> I'd like, from within Ruby, to be able to:
> 
> 1. Start a process/script
> 2. Stop a process/script
> 3. Monitor a process/script to see if it dies or is 
> abnormally terminated
> 
> I was expecting something like:
> 
> my_script = Process.new("/tmp/script.sh")
> my_script.start
> 
> Essentially is there a way to create an object which is a 
> system process as you might with Java?

Unfortunately, no.  Process is a module, not a class.  I think the
closest you can get is to use open3 and/or watch the process table using
something like sys-proctable (on the RAA).

I think it's an idea worth considering, though.

Regards,

Dan