From: Dave Wilson Date: 2008-11-04T02:11:45+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Threads in Windows Thanks for the quick responses guys. Its late in the day here so I will read over them tomorrow and get back to you. My main issue is that the threads my app (and its a testing app) spawns have the same name as the original running app. Long story short I dont have much control over the environment, but recently I have been looking to move to runit to try and clean the tests up, but what I have found is originally the app ran as a ruby process from the command line (process name was 'ruby'), spawning 'rubyw' processes. Now becuase eclypse runs runit tests as a rubyw process (test and spawned threads now have same process name), the code which killed off the old child processes is acually killing the test itself. As I said, I dont have full control over the environment (financial company who are strict about OS types and approved technologies) so I am somewhat limited in my options (win 2k is a nightmare). So if anyone knows a better way to launch a new thread which I can kill/terminate so it no longer appears in the process list, I am all ears. Thanks, and as I said I have not ahd a chance to review the responses. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.