Abort a system call

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> When I do in Perl sth like
>
> system "$decoder $bitstreamPath $yuvOutputPath";
>
> I can interrupt the execution with ctrl-c. The Ruby script does what
> it is expected to, but I cannot interrupt the program with ctrl-c
> anymore, and have to wait until the execution is finished.

Without trying out: maybe you have to explicitely set a
signal handler for
SIGINT that then terminates the child process. Could be that
perl does it
automatically for you.

With parts of other pieces today on the reflector, I assembled this

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--------
pid = Process.fork do
  exec($decoder, $bitstreamPath, $yuvOutputPath)
end

trap "SIGINT", proc{ Process.kill("SIGINT", pid); print "^C was pressed. Process id #{pid}\n" }

Process.waitpid(pid)
--------

The trap gets executed, meaning that I get the output of the print, during the execution of my program, and the pid matches the one from the process status list. However the first part (Process.kill("SIGINT", pid):wink: is not executed correctly, or at least does not do what I expected, killing the process. Is there another way to kill a process from Ruby? Or do I need another signal # instead of "SIGINT" there? No clue...

regards,

Bart.