Michael Ulm
11/29/2004 9:15:00 AM
Is there a ruby way of firing up a process and then
forget about it?
I have a program that processes some data, and sometimes
forks off a process that creates a file from part of the
data. I want then to automatically open a text editor on
that file. Rubys involvement with the file stops there.
However, making just a system call to start the editor
lets the thread hang around until the user closes the
editor. This seems a bit of a waste of resources.
I need a platform independent solution btw, since this
should run (at least) on three different hardware/OS
combinations.
Thanks,
Michael
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