From: Robert Klemme Date: 2010-09-23T17:18:50+09:00 Subject: Re: having problems with open4 and stuck forked processes On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:42 AM, elise huard wrote: >> Thread.abort_on_exception = true >> >> at the beginning of your script. > > Euhm (asking this because I honestly don't know) will this work for > Processes ? (he's not using Thread) But he uses Timeout which AFAIK uses threads internally for monitoring. Cheers robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/