From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2004-07-15T01:12:19+09:00
Subject: drb_fork


can anyone think of a more elegant way to do this:

   ~ > cat drb_fork.rb
   require 'drb/drb'

   def drb_fork obj
     pipe = IO.pipe
     fork do
       pipe[0].close
       pipe = pipe[1]
       DRb.start_service nil, obj
       pipe.write DRb.uri
       pipe.close
       DRb.thread.join
     end
     pipe[1].close
     pipe = pipe[0]
     uri = pipe.read
     DRb.start_service nil, nil rescue nil
     DRbObject.new nil, uri
   end

   a = drb_fork []
   a << 42
   p a.first


   ~ > ruby drb_fork.rb
   42


??


thanks.

-a
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