From: Me Me <emanuelef@...>
Date: 2008-06-30T20:14:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Sleep in a multithreaded environment

Me Me wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried this:
> 
> pipe=IO.popen("hang.exe")
> io=select([pipe],nil,nil,10) #10 - timeout
> if io==nil
>    puts "DEAD"
> end
> 
> with hang.exe a process that just hangs.
> It doesn't seem that the process is launched at all, and it goes on 
> without waiting.

Actually I checked and the process is running but it became a zombie.
It seems that the select doesn't wait
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