tasks 1.0 → 1.1

data/lib/tasks.rb

@@ -1,8 +1,28 @@
 module Tasks
   module_function
 
-  def spawn(*cmd)
-    fork { exec(*cmd) }
+  # Tasks.spawn
+  # spawns a new process.
+  #
+  # This code is almost equivalent to the following code:
+  #
+  #     def spawn(*cmd)
+  #       fork { exec(*cmd) }
+  #     end
+  #
+  # But Tasks.spawn doesn't use exec() for avoiding making new process.
+  #
+  # e.g. spawn('sleep 100 | echo') generates the following two processes:
+  # * sh -c 'sleep 100 | echo'
+  # * sleep 10
+  def spawn(cmd)
+    a = IO.popen(cmd)
+    fork do
+      while b = a.gets
+        puts b
+      end
+    end
+    a.pid
   end
 
   def love_pact(master, slave, interval = 2)

metadata

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification 
 name: tasks
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
-  version: "1.0"
+  version: "1.1"
 platform: ruby
 authors: 
 - ujihisa
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ autorequire:
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
 
-date: 2010-01-01 00:00:00 -08:00
+date: 2010-01-01 00:00:00 +09:00
 default_executable: 
 dependencies: []