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Re: [Q] how can I start a shell process and return immediately?

by Sebastian Hungerecker-2 :: Rate this Message:

Stephen Bannasch wrote:
> java -cp <classpath> <main_class>&
>
> starts the Java program in a background process thread and returns
> control the shell.
>
> When I try this from a Ruby program the program blocks until the Java
> program is terminated.

I don't know what exactly "this" is, but system("some_command &") works just
fine here.

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