> > Oops, there's no way but $? to retrieve wait status. We had better > > provide the alternative way, like other magic vairables. Any idea? > [ status, pid ] = Process.wait2 > ? Interesting. According to the Linux documentation, there is a wait(), a wait3(), a wait4(), but no wait2(). This seems like a great occasion for us to pick the number 2. :-) Mathieu Bouchard