From: 7stud -- <dolgun@...>
Date: 2007-09-30T13:20:28+09:00
Subject: Re: how can I start a shell process and return immediately?

Stephen Bannasch wrote:
>
> * Thanks 7stud,
> 
> IO.popen is interesting, I'm playing with your simple test programs and 
> reading chapter 11 in the Pickaxe book.

You can consider the sleep(4) statement in the subprocess as a stand in 
for some calculation or task that takes 4 seconds to execute.

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