From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2010-01-22T23:49:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:27700] Re: [Bug #2619] Proposed method: 	Process.fork_supported?

2010/1/22 Vladimir Sizikov <vsizikov@gmail.com>:

> Yes, it seems that there are cases when this is possible. But the
> problem is that this is not reliable and "portable" (across platforms
> and across different implementations) in general case. So this looks
> more like a hint rather than a reliable way to check whether some
> method is implemented/functional or not. At the end of the day any
> robust code still needs to take care of NotImplementedError and
> whatnot.

Why it is not so reliable in JRuby?

FFI cannot test function availability?
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Tanaka Akira