From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-04-30T22:21:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange DRb and fork issues

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Farrel Lifson wrote:

>
> Hi Ara,
>
> In my code I used fork with a block (taken from server.rb):
> def create_client(hostname=nil,port=nil)
>   pid = fork do
>     @klass.start(hostname,port,self.url)
>   end
>   Process.detach(pid)
>   pid
> end
> end

that looks reasonable.

> Could that be causing the strange issue I'm having? I assumed that was a
> safe way of using fork as the child only runs what's in the block.  My main
> puzzle is why the server loses it's reference to the client process after it
> has registered.

hard to say without seeing the code ;-)

> I'm trying to learn some of the low level details of DRb, but unfortunately
> the documentation out there is not very detailed.

the samples directory covers nearly everything - do you have that?

cheers.

-a
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