From: cremes.devlist@...
Date: 2006-11-29T05:22:25+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] slave-1.1.0


On Nov 28, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Tim Pease wrote:

> 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?

Slave is UNIX only since it relies on fork(). I've looked at the  
code. Ara does a nice job of keeping the fork stuff encapsulated. If  
you have a Win32 mechanism that could be bolted on to Slave and  
replace fork(), you'd get the rest of the code for free.

cr