From: Fredrik <fredjoha@...>
Date: 2008-04-17T12:15:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Parallel for loop


> indeed, and you can blow up in the child and not know.  read this code
> to see how to handle that:
>
> http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/open4/open4-0.9.6/lib/open4.rb
>
> the bit about EOFError
>
> it's damn tricky - it *excepts* get get an exception marshaled up a
> dedicated pipe, if this does *not* occur we know the child process
> started successfully.  you can adapt.
>

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. But are you saying that open4
can solve all my problems?