From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-07-15T03:02:20+09:00
Subject: Re: drb_fork

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> Maybe this:
>
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/detach/
>
> I've never used it, but it looks interesting. (I suspect it does the
> same as you do, though.)

it does look pretty nice - i didn't know about the drbunix:// uri style -
that's a nice trick since the code won't run w/o fork and there for should be
able to do this.

thanks for the pointer.

-a
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