From: Hiro Asari <asari.ruby@...>
Date: 2007-08-21T01:42:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Solaris door library

On 8/20/07, Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>

Indeed, it might be....  I'll take a look at this library.

For now, I guess I'll consider this issue closed.

Thank you, everyone, for various viewpoints.

-- 
Hirotsugu Asari