From: Chris Schlaeger <cschlaeger@...>
Date: 2010-03-23T01:29:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:28865] Can DRb be used across a fork()

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I'm trying to use DRb to communicate between a parent and child
processes. The DRb server is started before I fork-off the children.
When I connect back from the child to the parent DRb server, I only
seem to talk to a zombie copy of the DRb server in the child.

The attached program demonstrates the problem. Is that a bug or is DRb
not designed to work across a fork?

With current ruby 1.9.2 I get the following output:

#ruby19 drb_over_fork.rb
13151: Parent
13155: Child
13155: a: 1
13155: A: 1
13151: A: 0

Chris

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