From: johnwyp@... (JohnW)
Date: 2002-04-13T04:38:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Process controlls

> 
>   catch :done do
>     loop do
>       begin
>         File.open("filename") { throw :done }
>       rescue Exception
>       end
>       sleep 1
>     end
>   end
> 

OK, so I changed that to:

pid = fork do
  exec "foo"
end

begin
  sleep(5)
  until File.exist?("test.done")
  end
ensure
  p "Killing the manager"
  Process.kill("SIGINT", pid)
end

I tossed in a couple p statements to see the pid, but the kill is NOT
working.  The process (in this case the forked off ruby.exe process)
is still up.

This brings me to a spin off question....is there a way to grab the
child process IDs from a process?  What's happening is that the forked
ruby spawns off my app perfectly, but I suspect that the kill on the
ruby PID will only kill that process and not what's running on it (my
app).

Thanks for the help so far....I'm feel as though I'm REAL close to
getting this....

John