From: Dennis Newbold <dennisn@...>
Date: 2002-04-06T04:00:18+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] -- Starting a Background Process


On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Wladimir Mutel wrote:

> Dennis Newbold :
> 
> >   pid = %&(some_program)
> 
> > process group).  Comments / feedback are welcome.
> 
> 	I think IO.popen already does something similar.
> 

True, but what I'm suggesting is something a little more general, as
it allows but does not set up or require a pipe connection between the
parent and the child.  In a loose sense, you might call it a kind of
superclass of the IO.popen functionality.

Dennis