From: Name Name <exl2@...>
Date: 2006-07-12T00:57:52+09:00
Subject: Processes and Portability

I would like to run a process concurrently (thus if the process goes to 
sleep or runs forever, I can still run other code from my main process) 
and have all standard out of that process be put into a text file.  I 
would also like this code to be portable.  And finally, I would like to 
be able to kill this process at any time (So I will need the pid)

This thus eliminates the use of fork.  Also, I have tried:

a=IO.popen("program > logfile"), but on Windows this creates two 
processes, cmd.exe and program.  a.pid only gives the pid of cmd.exe. 
And the behavior on *nix seems to be just the program (although I can be 
wrong).

So I require portability in that sense.

Is this possible?

thanks

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