From: Minkoo Seo <minkoo.seo@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T15:12:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Platform Independence Programming

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Thanks Patrick.

I got one more question. The list you've shown doesn't contain threading.
Is threading platform independent?

Sincerely,
Minkoo Seo

On 7/11/06, Patrick Hurley <phurley@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/11/06, Minkoo Seo <minkoo.seo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > programs. That being the case, how can I rewrite the following program
> > in platform independent way?
> >
> > print "Hello\r\n"
>
> puts "Hello"
>
> > Dir["/tmp/*"]
>
> # note your code works fine under windows assuming you have a /tmp
> directory
> tmp_path = ENV['TEMP'] || ENV['TMP'] || File.join('','tmp')
> Dir[File.join(tmp_path,'*')]
>
> > And I also wonder whether there's another problem related to platform
> > independence.
>
> Plenty :-), fork/process handling, services / daemons, drive
> letters/mount points, IPC/pipes, etc. It really depends upon your
> needs/goals many things are pretty easy, some are very difficult you
> need to be more specific.
>
> Good luck
> pth
>
>

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