Process management and control

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Unfortunately, no. Process is a module, not a class. I think the
closest you can get is to use open3 and/or watch the process table using
something like sys-proctable (on the RAA).

I think it's an idea worth considering, though.

Regards,

Dan

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-----Original Message-----
From: tim.hennekey@gmail.com [mailto:tim.hennekey@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 11:14 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Process management and control

I'd like, from within Ruby, to be able to:

1. Start a process/script
2. Stop a process/script
3. Monitor a process/script to see if it dies or is
abnormally terminated

I was expecting something like:

my_script = Process.new("/tmp/script.sh")
my_script.start

Essentially is there a way to create an object which is a
system process as you might with Java?