From: Nikodemus Siivola <tsiivola@...>
Date: 2002-09-08T19:02:22+09:00
Subject: Re: a problem of waitting and printting out message


On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Maggie Xiao 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

$ ruby -e 'fork { sleep 5; puts "\nFnord!" }'

  -- Nikodemus