From: Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@...>
Date: 2004-08-20T01:20:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Config::CONFIG['SHELL'] - windows/*nix/mac

Have you considered using DRb, instead of raw pipes, to coordinate the
work on Windows? Assuming this is more of a load-balancing system
than, say, a massively-parallel cluster environment, the overhead of
DRb marshalling and unmarshalling shouldn't be a big deal, and you
could probably just make your "front" object a simple job controller,
which could spawn processes, pass them input, and send output back to
the client.

Just a thought.

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Lennon
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