From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso@...>
Date: 2002-04-01T03:08:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Process Mgmt wrapper?

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David Corbin <dcorbin@imperitek.com> writes:

> 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"
>    

Here's something to get you started. Not that different from popen3,
but should give you hints on what to add. Then whatever you produce
should be wrapped in a thread plus some other status checker methods.

YS.


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