From: Thiago Jackiw <tjackiw@...>
Date: 2007-01-11T08:23:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading nightmare

Tim,

I'm on a unix box but I'm trying to accomplish this without having to
be system specific. If I have no choice than I'll have to do it only
for *nix systems.

Thiago

On 1/10/07, Tim Pease <tim.pease@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/10/07, Thiago Jackiw <tjackiw@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> If you're on a non-Windows system, then you can use Ara's "slave" gem.
>
> Check out Ara's "systemu" gem as well -- although I do not think it
> allows you to send information to the forked process.
>
> Blessings,
> TwP
>
>