From: Louis-Philippe <default@...>
Date: 2009-02-17T05:08:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Controlling a forked process

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Hi Michael,

you can:

fork1_pid = fork { # fork 1 body }

fork2_pid = fork { # fork 2 body }

Process.kill('HUP', fork1_pid)
Process.kill('HUP', fork2_pid)

does this answer your question?

2009/2/16 Michael Satterwhite <michael@weblore.com>

> 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
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

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