From: Joel VanderWerf <joelvanderwerf@...>
Date: 2010-08-31T03:00:00+09:00
Subject: Re: fork() function is unimplemented on this machine

On 08/30/2010 09:47 AM, Ralph Shnelvar wrote:
> How can I execute (spawn) an external program in 1.8.6 and know when the program is finished?

t = Thread.new do
   system "sleep 1"
end

p t.alive?

sleep 1.5

p t.alive?
p t.value

t.join