From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-07-21T16:24:51+09:00
Subject: Re: not terminatinga process

On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:32:45AM +0900, Kurt M. Dresner wrote:
> 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)?

t = Thread.new do
  .. stuff in a thread
end
t.join    # <<-- that's what you need

Regards,

Brian.