Re: fork dies

Juha-Jarmo Heinonen ([email protected]) wrote:

> >You'd probably have to turn it into a daemon:
> >
> >http://ruby-talk.org/blade/87467
> >
> >For the first line, it should instead be fork do ... end if you want 
> >the
> >parent process to stay around (probably).
> >
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> AFAIK {..} is an alias for do..end when used as a block.

Yes, and I find it 'ugly' :)

I really like the beauty of "fork and exit" as opposed to "exit if
fork", FWIW :)

A really good example of the beauty of do ... end vs { ... } is in the
ruby tests, there are constructs like:

Windows.dont do
  ...
end

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