From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-08-31T15:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: fork() function is unimplemented on this machine

On 08/31/2010 01:20 AM, Ralph Shnelvar wrote:
> Monday, August 30, 2010, 12:00:00 PM, you wrote:
>
> JV>  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?
>
> JV>  t = Thread.new do
> JV>     system "sleep 1"
> JV>  end
>
> JV>  p t.alive?
>
> JV>  sleep 1.5
>
> JV>  p t.alive?
> JV>  p t.value
>
> JV>  t.join
>
> May all the gods of all the religions bless your home and your family.

Another solution is to use cygwin which does support fork().

Kind regards

	robert

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