From: Name Name <exl2@...>
Date: 2006-07-12T03:20:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Processes and Portability

I know this sounds nieve, but is there a way to do what I want without
requiring an external gem, and without that extremely long code on the
secnod post.  I would really prefer just to use native ruby.

Be able to concurrently run a process (that could potentially block 
forever or run forever) written in another language and having the 
ability to stop it at anytime.

a=IO.popen (program_name)
Process.kill(9,a.pid)

works, but it won't log to a file

a=IO.popen(program_name > logfile)
Process.kill(9, a.pid)

spawns two processes and does not kill both.

I need something to be able to do the latter.

thanks

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