From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-10-06T07:41:46+09:00
Subject: Re: after gem released v 0.8.1


On Oct 5, 2011, at 12:43 , Yossef Mendelssohn wrote:

> On Oct 5, 3:38 pm, Ryan Davis <ryand-r...@zenspider.com> wrote:
>> 10000 % help wait
>> wait: wait [n]
>>     Wait for the specified process and report its termination status.  If
>>     N is not given, all currently active child processes are waited for,
>>     and the return code is zero.  N may be a process ID or a job
>>     specification; if a job spec is given, all processes in the job's
>>     pipeline are waited for.
> 
> Are you ignoring the Windows thing, or is this your way of telling him
> to install cygwin?

Well, I'll _always_ ignore the windows thing. Installing cygwin is certainly an option. But I think more importantly it is missing the point that it is utterly useless outside of windows and it should make that clear. This isn't clear:

> It has proven quite useful to me especially in the windows world that
> doesn't have as flexible of a "background process" for command line
> apps.