From: Reimer Behrends <behrends@...>
Date: 2002-09-08T15:32:29+09:00
Subject: Re: a problem of waitting and printting out message

Maggie Xiao (mxiao@ee.ualberta.ca) wrote:
[...]
>  I should construct a program which should wait for the specified time
>  and then print out the specified message. Meanwhile control of the
>  shell should be returned to the user. ie. The program must be
>  non-blocking. is there any way to construct it in pure ruby way? Or
>  my only way is to using extending ruby with c?

Is the following what you are looking for?

if fork then
  # parent process
  exit!
else
  # child process
  sleep 10
  puts "Now!"
end

			Reimer Behrends