From: Thiago Jackiw <tjackiw@...>
Date: 2007-01-11T07:51:58+09:00
Subject: Threading nightmare

The scenario (for test purposes) I'm trying to accomplish when running
rake on a new Rakefile is:

1) start a java server (which doesn't have an option to 'daemonize'
it) and get its pid
2) interact with the server by sending things or accessing it
3) stop the server

I've tried using IO's popen, fork, thread, even sending the server to
/dev/null when starting it but none of them work as I expected. Once
the server (step 1) starts it just hangs in there, not letting the
following steps to run. But if I kill the server (control+c) the step
2 tries to run and fails because the server is no longer running.

Any ideas how it can be done?

Thanks a lot.

Thiago