From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2009-12-19T07:06:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Process.waitpid(external pid)

>> Anybody know of a way in ruby to #waitpid on a non child process?
> 
> It seems unlikely in general -- waitpid, in POSIX land, really is 
> specific
> to your children.
> 
> Usually, the idiom is to send them signal 0 until it fails.


Excellent suggestion.
I have created a gem that does just that.

$ gem install wait_pid

provides you with this ruby code

require 'wait_pid'
WaitPid.wait_pid 1234

and this binary command

$ wait_pid pid_number

Works in both windows and linux.

Cheers!
-r

http://github.com/rdp/wait_pid
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