From: Roger Pack Date: 2010-01-23T02:59:10+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:27706] Re: [Bug #2619] Proposed method: Process.fork_supported? >> At the end of the day any >> robust code still needs to take care of NotImplementedError and >> whatnot. So the question is, was the original request worth being satisfied... The original request was apparently "we want to be able to know if fork is possible, without having to call fork itself" If that isn't something that wants to be satisfied, then it's probably "feature bloat." -r