Subject: Re: Exececuting another application from within ruby
From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel path.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 02:03:07 +0900
References: 147174147178147202
In-reply-to: 147202
Brian Candler wrote:
> It's worth mentioning that all that the system() call does is:
>
> 1. fork
> 2. exec (in child)
> 3. wait for child to terminate (in parent)
Not on windows. There's no fork(), so ruby uses CreateProcess to
implement #system.