From: Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@...>
Date: 2008-08-16T03:06:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Starting new process on Windows!

On 8/15/08, Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Actually the problem has re-surfaced.  Basically what I need is fork
> functionality.  I have a small bit of code that I need to run as a separate
> process.  It would solve two problems if I could achieve this:

> I will probably have to resort to system although I'd rather not wait for
> the code to finish execution as the results don't really matter to the main
> thread of execution, and it takes a while.
>

On Windows, use:
system "start #{myapp}"

start spawns a new process then returns right away.


-Adam