From: "Marvin Gülker" <sutniuq@...>
Date: 2009-11-22T18:34:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Killing  a thread

David Schulberg wrote:
> system('app.exe')

This starts a subprocess which cannot be killed by killing the thread. 
Use Kernel#spawn (that should work on Windows, too, I think) instead and 
kill the subprocess:
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pid = spawn("app.exe")
sleep 10
Process.kill("KILL", pid)
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Note that you don't need the thread anymore.

Marvin

PS: You may have a look here: 
http://wiki.ruby-portal.de/Tricks#Externe_Programme_starten
;-)
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