From: Matt Lawrence <matt@...>
Date: 2010-12-19T03:47:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Independent processes

On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> 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.

Or maybe this is what you want: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/185221

-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts.
It's what I can remember in time to use.