From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2006-11-29T04:49:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] slave-1.1.0

On 11/28/06, Ara.T.Howard <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
>
>
> SYNOPSIS
>
>    the Slave class forks a process and starts a drb server in the child using
>    any object as the server.  the process is detached so it is not required
>    (nor possible) to wait on the child pid.  a Heartbeat is set up between the
>    parent and child processes so that the child will exit of the parent exits
>    for any reason - preventing orphaned slaves from running indefinitely.  the
>    purpose of Slaves is to be able to easily set up a collection of objects
>    communicating via drb protocols instead of having to use IPC.
>

Does Slave work on the Win32 platform, or is this a UNIX only gem?

TwP