From: Michael Satterwhite <michael@...>
Date: 2009-02-17T03:45:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Controlling a forked process

David Masover wrote:

> Yes. The parent process should have the process ID of the child. With
> that you can do things like:
> 
> if (pid = fork)
>   sleep 1
>   Process.kill('TERM', pid)
> else
>   loop do
>     puts 'KILL ME'
>   end
> end

on the line
     if (pid = fork)

Is fork returning the pid of the spawned process or of the current (e.g. 
parent) process? More to the point, assume that I spawn multiple 
processes. How can I address each of them?

Thanks
---Michael
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