From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-09-18T06:40:03+09:00
Subject: Re: loop a program on exit?

On 17.09.2007 22:12, Michael Linfield wrote:
> John Joyce wrote:
> 
>> You're going into very platform specific territory there. Potentially
>> malware like behavior.
> 
> this is true, i do see how it could be seen as malware behavior and i 
> should probably stay away from that. Its purpose is to make sure the 
> user cannot exit while its running its given functions, if they were to 
> do this,  it could cause some serious problems :(
> 
> 
>> at_exit {exec "ruby", $0, *ARGS}
> thanks Tim Pease ill look into that
> 
>> END{
>>    code
>> }
> 
> i will give that a shot as well

Here's another mechanism:

loop do
   Process.waitpid( fork do
     # your program goes here
   end )
end

Kind regards

	robert