From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-11-29T05:26:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] slave-1.1.0

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, 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?

what is this "windows" you speak of?

;-)

-a
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