From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-05-22T13:49:09+09:00
Subject: fork and wait... what am I missing?

Running this code on RedHat 8, Ruby 1.8.0preview2:

  fork { system(cmd) }
  sleep(1)
  Process.wait
  puts "Finished waiting"

When the cmd is something like "sleep 15"
or "ls -lR >/dev/null" or something, the
Process.wait works fine.

When the cmd is "gvim foobar" -- it doesn't 
wait at all. The Ruby program exits before
the gvim exits.

Also tried "gvim foobar; sleep 1" and so on.

Tried with/without the sleep before the 
Process.wait call.

What's going on here?

Thanks,
Hal