From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-10-18T00:24:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread + fork warning

Hi,

In message "Re: Thread + fork warning"
    on 03/10/17, Bedo Sandor <bsanyi@sunserv.kfki.hu> writes:

|- I can't log the termination of the spawned
|  process.

How do you want to watch process?  If you want to store logs into a
file, you can use shell redirect such as ">" etc.

If you want to get logs as stream output, you can use popen3 library.

|- Don't know if this is a correct way to start
|  background processes: (I need background processes,
|  so I have to continue the main Ruby program!)
|
|		def startInBg(unixCommand)
|			system(unixCommand.to_s + "&")
|		end
|	      ...
|		startInBg 'zcat /var/log/messages*.gz | logClassifier'
|
|	It works, and there's no warnin, but what
|	do You think about  +"&"  ?

+"&" should work OK; you are working on Unix.

							matz.