From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-01-19T19:45:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Start a program, get it's output, then kill it. while "multithreading"...

On 18.01.2008 21:18, Stephen Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 07:56:34PM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
>> 2008/1/18, Deadolus <deadolus@gmail.com>:
>>> ...
>>> I read about multithreading, IO.popen would be perfect, but how can I
>>> kill iperf when I want to quit, before iperf ran out of time?
>> ...
>>
>> About the killing I am not sure.  With a quick check I did not find
>> a proper way to get the PID of the child process with IO.popen.  If
>> ...
> 
> It's a little hard to find until you already know where it is, but
> IO#pid might come in handy here :)

Thanks!  I use #popen too infrequently and when I use it I do not 
normally fiddle with the process directly.

Kind regards

	robert