From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2002-10-16T05:58:09+09:00
Subject: async system call on Windows?

I need a way to thread a system call to Windows without having the entire
ruby process (all Ruby threads) wait for the system call to return. I need
to call another command-line program that might hang ... so I need to be
able to put that system call in a thread and have the main thread timeout in
case the system call did hang. Is there anyway to do this? I dinked a little
with Win32API and _spawnv, but couldn't get that going as I'm a bit rusty
that low in the OS.

Chris
http://clabs.org