From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-04-13T05:39:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Process controlls

On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 04:38:22AM +0900, JohnW wrote:
> 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).

So you are saying that "foo" spawns a "ruby.exe" process, and when you
kill the "foo" process, the "ruby.exe" process does not get killed?

Or are you saying that exec() is spawning a new process rather than
replacing the current one?

Are you using Windows?  In that case, I'm surprised that fork/exec
actually work for you (based on some earlier threads on the subject).

Paul