From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-07-06T02:03:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Exececuting another application from within ruby

Brian Candler wrote:
> It's worth mentioning that all that the system() call does is:
> 
> 1. fork
> 2. exec (in child)
> 3. wait for child to terminate (in parent)

Not on windows. There's no fork(), so ruby uses CreateProcess to
implement #system.