From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2006-11-29T22:57:40+09:00
Subject: Re: I'm a process-spawning idiot.

Eric Hodel wrote:
> That said, try playing with shell.rb.  I don't really know what it  
> does, though.
Thanks!

This Ruby program:
   STDOUT.reopen open('log.txt','w')
   exec 'echo', 'Hi!'
   __END__
outputs "Hi!" to log.txt.

shell.rb (or, more specifically, shell/process-controller.rb), uses this 
combined with fork (since exec replaces the process) to do its dirty work.

Downloading win32-process now... :D

Devin