From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2006-09-26T15:46:33+09:00
Subject: Re: How to spawn an idependent child procees on Win32?

Hi,

At Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:09:26 +0900,
Dmitri Kondratiev wrote  in [ruby-talk:216370]:
> How to create an idependent child procees on Win32 so parent:
> 1) after spawning child could continue without blocking and not waiting
> for child to exit
> 2) could kill new process
> 3) get notified when child exits
>
> What is the best way to do this in Ruby? Should I use 'fork'? How parent
> can be notified about child exit? Any examples I can look at?

  $ ./ruby -v -e 'p pid = spawn(%[./ruby -e "sleep 3"]), Time.now; p
Process.wait(pid), Time.now; p $?'
  ruby 1.9.0 (2006-09-19) [i386-mingw32]
  2360
  2006-09-26 15:41:13 +0900
  2360
  2006-09-26 15:41:16 +0900
  #<Process::Status: pid=2360,exited(0)>

-- 
Nobu Nakada