From: timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
Date: 2005-05-05T10:19:52+09:00
Subject: Re: MMU-less systems and vfork.

In article <fcfe417005050220583afb4f37@mail.gmail.com>, Brian Mitchell wrote:
[...]
>My question was: Will ruby still run when fork is not available
>(replacing fork with vfork or cutting out fork). The quick answer is
>no.
[...]

The usual build of Ruby on Windows does not use fork - Ruby does not require
fork to operate.

If everything goes well, ./configure will notice that fork isn't available,
and will not set HAVE_FORK in config.h.