From: "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...>
Date: 2003-07-21T11:32:45+09:00
Subject: not terminatinga process

Hi,

I'm currently programming a chat bot.  The problem is that when I run
the bot, it spawns a thread that handles the incoming messages.
However, if the main thread terminates, this spawned thread terminates
too.  So right now I have a busy waiting loop in my main thread, and it
uses up all my CPU time.  This is not a permanent solution.  What is a
good solution to this problem (such that I can kill the processes when I
want to)?

It currently kills everything by terminating the first process, and then
the instance of the robot gets falls out of scope and dies.

-Kurt

Here is the code of the main program that creates the object:

#! /usr/bin/env ruby

require 'bot'

thebot = ChaosBot.new("username","password","defaultchatname")

while thebot.connected? do
      # busy wait      
end