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Fork/exec a sub process, wait for it to rejoin and then print the status
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fork_exec.rb
# Runs exec inside the fork in order to capture the output of the subprocess
pid = fork { exec('ssh 127.0.0.1') }
_, status = Process.waitpid2(pid)
puts status.success?
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