From: Larry Edelstein <ribs@...>
Date: 2006-02-24T10:42:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Noob has trouble with io/wait on Windows

Thanks Dave.  Color me "grumbling" for not being able to find this info 
elsewhere.

-Larry


Dave Burt wrote:
> Larry Edelstein asked...
>> I'm trying to use the "io/wait" library (using "require 'io/wait'") but
>> the interpreter won't load it.
>>
>> I'm a dang newbie and I've just installed the 1.8.2 one-click package on
>> Windows.        Do I need to do something special to enable this
>> package?  The error I get is like so:
>>
>> D:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in
>> `require__': No such file to load -- io/wait (LoadError)
> 
> io/wait is one of the POSIX-based functions (along with fork, etc.) that
> doesn't work on Windows (yet).
> 
> The win32utils library win32-process available from RubyForge provides a
> replacement:
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils/
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave


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