From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2010-12-19T03:40:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Independent processes

On Dec 18, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Tasos Laskos wrote:

> *Lightbulb*
> The children are listening  on stdin too so they probably catch the 
> Ctrl+C interrupt and die as well.

That's correct.  By default they share STDIN.

> But I don't want that either...is there a way to separate them 
> completely or will I have to settle?

Sure.  You could redirect STDIN (plus STDOUT and STDERR, if desired) in the children:

  $stdin.reopen("/dev/null", "r")

or you could change the signal handling in the children:

  trap("INT", "IGNORE")

I hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II