From: David Corbin <dcorbin@...>
Date: 2002-03-30T23:02:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Process Mgmt wrapper?

David Corbin wrote:

> 1) I am aware of the Process module, as well as Kernel
> 2) I need to be able to
>    a) launch an external processes
>    b) provide access to process status (running, terminated cleanly, 
> abnormaly terminated)
>    c) prevent another instance of *this* process from being launched
>    d) perhaps process some of the output "on demand"

One more thing I'd like to see:
        e) it should be able to "recover" if the parent process 
dies/terminates and gets restarted.

>   I know I can do all this from ruby, but it's a bit involved.  My 
> question is, has anyone written a class wraps all this up in simple 
> interface?
>
> Thanks
> David
>
>