Hi All,

I've come across a scenario when I was using the systemu within a service and the service was not shutting down
properly.

The documentation says the service should be implemented as follows when trying to get the process id. (Note I have
changes the sleep timeout to 900)

looper = %q( ruby -e" loop{ STDERR.puts Time.now.to_i; sleep 1 } " )
    
      status, stdout, stderr =
        systemu looper do |cid|
          sleep 900
          Process.kill 9, cid
        end

However I noticed when doing this even if the job completes succesfully if I  shutdown the service it always fails.

Instead I used the following and the service now shuts down properly. Not too sure if this is a bug or may be helpful
in anyway but it solves a problem with the service we are using.


		t1 = Thread.new {
			status, stdout, stderr =
			systemu @fetch_job.cmd_line do |cid|
				@fetch_job.process_id = cid.to_s
				@fetch_job.status = "Running"
				@fetch_job.save
			end			
		}

		start = Time.now
		while t1.alive? do
			if Time.now - start > 900
				logger.error "Killing thread. Timed out"
				t1.kill!
				@fetch_job.cmd_output = ""
				@fetch_job.status = "Timed Out"
				@fetch_job.save
				break;
			end
			sleep 2
		end

Cheers
Andrew