From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2003-07-21T11:58:59+09:00
Subject: Re: not terminatinga process


"Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@cs.utexas.edu> wrote in message
[snip]

> 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)?

You may want to take a look at the methods of the Thread class:
(especially the 'join' method to wait in the main thread without being
'busy' and the 'kill' method to kill the threads when you want to).

C:\>ri Thread
This is a test 'ri'. Please report errors and omissions
on http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RIOnePointEight

------------------------------------------------------------------------
     class: Thread
------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Thread encapsulates the behavior of a thread of execution,
     including the main thread of the Ruby script.
     In the descriptions that follow, the parameter aSymbol refers to a
     symbol, which is either a quoted string or a Symbol (such as
     :name).

------------------------------------------------------------------------
     [], []=, abort_on_exception, abort_on_exception,
     abort_on_exception=, abort_on_exception=, alive?, critical,
     critical=, current, exit, exit, fork, join, key?, keys, kill, kill,
     list, main, new, pass, priority, priority=, raise, run, safe_level,
     start, status, stop, stop?, terminate, value, wakeup
------------------------------------------------------------------------

HTH,
-- shanko