From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-08-21T06:16:06+09:00
Subject: Threads and fake forking

Today I was thinking about how you could use a Thread + Continuation  
to create a new thread with the interface of fork. Apparently I was  
mistaken.

class Thread
   def self.vfork
     callcc do |cc|
       Thread.new { cc.call(nil) }
     end
   end
end

thread = Thread.vfork
p thread

I don't know what exactly happens, but it definitely isn't
nil
#<Thread:1234>

as I was hopping

I could almost see just
nil

showing up but that's not what happens.

Instead I just get
#<Thread:1234 dead>

Anyone have a cool explanation?