From: Colin Brumelle <colin@...>
Date: 2009-04-09T05:35:25+09:00
Subject: Re: exec (new process or new thread?) to continue

I like this pattern:

def fire_and_forget(&block)
  pid = fork do
    begin
      yield
    ensure
      Process.exit!
    end
  end
  Process.detach pid
end

A little bit safer then just using 'fork'...

Taken from a post here: 
http://www.caboo.se/articles/2006/10/14/premcache-caching-an
d-precaching-with-memcached

Justin Collins wrote:
> Assuming you do not need to communicate with, wait on, or know anything
> about the process you are starting, you can use fork[2] and exec this 
> way:
> 
> fork { exec load_app }
> 
> -Justin
> 
> 
> [1] http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M005979
> [2] http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M005980

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