From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-09-22T20:31:33+09:00
Subject: Re: CplusRuby - Gluing C and Ruby

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:54:13 +0900,
> Daniel Berger wrote in [ruby-talk:270261]:
>> +      if RUBY_PLATFORM.match('mswin')
>> +         raise if status != 0
>> +      else
>> +         raise if status.exitstatus != 0
>> +      end
> 
> I'm curious why win32/process doesn't return Process::Status.

We had to reimplement waitpid and waitpid2 because of our custom fork 
implementation. But, we weren't sure how to set $? manually to a 
Process::Status object in pure Ruby. Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Dan