From: Reacher <brandon.g.jones@...>
Date: 2008-02-16T05:50:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Will a "system call" wait until the command finishes?

On Feb 15, 2:44 pm, sayoyo Sayoyo <say...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wish to know, if I use system() to execute a time consuming task, will
> ruby wait until the task is finished or it will automatically interprete
> the next line?
>
> Thanks you very much
>
> sayoyo
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it appears that Ruby will wait.  try this
$ ruby -e 'system("sleep 5");p "hi"'