From: Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2007-08-20T23:37:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Solaris door library

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:45:59 +0900,
> Hiro Asari wrote in [ruby-core:11914]:
>>>>> I think this is best done as a 3rd party library given that it's
>>>>> specific to one platform.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Dan
>>>> Hi, Dan,
>>>>
>>>> Now that Solaris is open source, it is conceivable that door
>>>> library will be ported to another platform, much like ZFS.
>>> When it actually *is* ported, and people *actually* use it, then we
>>> should consider merging it into core. Until then, I vote no.
>> I wonder if anyone other than Dan and Urabe-san has opinions.
> 
> I second Dan.  It's easy to add File.door? and File::Stat#door?
> in an extension.  I'd like to make File.ftype extensible but
> deprecate cryptic Kernel#test.

I could add this to my solaris-file library at 
http://solarisutils.rubyforge.org. Seems appropriate.

Regards,

Dan