From: WATANABE Tetsuya <tetsu@...>
Date: 2000-12-19T17:43:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7666] Re: how to timeout as system call?

In message "[ruby-talk:7659] how to timeout as system call?"
    on 00/12/19, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@user2.teleport.com> writes:

|     include Process
|     #fork a process:
|     kidpid = fork do
|        puts "In child, pid = #$$"
|        system('du /')  #or some command that takes a long time

exec('du /')

??

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