Berger, Daniel
4/27/2005 2:54:00 PM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobu.nokada@softhome.net [mailto:nobu.nokada@softhome.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 8:47 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Starting and stopping a child process in Windows
>
>
> Hi,
>
> At Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:46:11 +0900,
> Alexey Verkhovsky wrote in [ruby-talk:139984]:
> > What is the best / most reliable / most obvious way to
> start and kill
> > a child process under Windows? This child process happens to be a
> > Webrick application, and I don't care about being
> platform-dependent
> > in this case.
>
> With 1.9 feature:
>
> $ ruby -v -e 'pid = spawn("cmd.exe"); sleep 3;
> Process.kill("TERM", pid); puts; p Process.waitpid(pid); p $?'
> ruby 1.9.0 (2005-04-22) [i386-cygwin]
> Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
> (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.
>
> c:\ruby>
> 2140
> #<Process::Status: pid=2140,signaled(SIGTERM=15)>
Which of the many flavors of spawn are you using on Win32? And how does
it work on Unix?
Regards,
Dan