From: Phy Prabab <phyprabab@...>
Date: 2006-09-30T02:18:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Question on exec subprocesses

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Thanks, this works like a charm!

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From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 4:45:44 PM
Subject: Re: Question on exec subprocesses

On 9/28/06, Phy Prabab <phyprabab@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
>  Can someone shed some light on how I can accomplish something similar to this:
>
>  exec("foo action")
>  exec("foobar action")
>  Process.wait
>
>  I want to wait on the second process, yet in ruby 184, all processes are waited on (until completion).  How can I effectively fork off these process simultaneously and wait for the last one to complete or what would be really nice, is to wait for both of these separate processes to finish.
>

Does:
fork {exec "foo action"}
fork {exec "foobar action"}
Process.waitall

do what you want?






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