Marvin Gülker wrote in post #990237:
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> A better way IMO is to use the #spawn method which calls the external
> process and doesn't wait for it to complete. It immediately returns theID of the spawned process. Since Ruby 1.9 this works even on Windows.
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> Vale,
> Marvin

Hi, Marvin
is #spawn's behavior just similar to fork+exec?
i am not very clear how to change the code to use #spawn instead, could ou please give me some sample code to show how to using #spawn instead f fork+exec? thanks!