From: Yukihiro Matsumoto Date: 2010-01-22T14:27:38+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:27678] Re: [Feature #2619] Proposed method: Process.fork_supported? Hi, In message "Re: [ruby-core:27643] [Feature #2619] Proposed method: Process.fork_supported?" on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:36:33 +0900, Luis Lavena writes: |Hmn, defined?(fork) is not very useful: We added a new behavior of defined?/respond_to? to 1.9 for exact same purpose in more generic way. We are not going to add redundant feature. If you want to stick with 1.8, JRuby, IronRuby or whatever, you have to persuade their maintainers. matz.