Re: Ruby and Solaris door library

Hiro Asari wrote:
> Hi, there.  This is my first patch against ruby.  I think I followed
> the guidelines, but if I made mistakes, please kindly point them out.
> 
> 
> On Solaris (2.6 onwards, I believe), there is a local IPC mechanism
> called doors.
> 
> It's not unlike named pipes, in that two processes communicate through
> an entry in a filesystem.  This naturally leads to:
> 
> door_path="/var/run/syslog_door"
> 
> File.door?(door_path) # => true
> File.new(door_path).stat.door? # => true
> File.ftype(door_path) # => "door"
> test ?D, door_path  # => true

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I think this is best done as a 3rd party library given that it's 
specific to one platform.

Regards,

Dan