From: Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>
Date: 2008-08-16T03:15:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Starting new process on Windows!

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On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Adam Shelly <adam.shelly@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
Awesome!!!!  Thanks Adam.

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