From: "ara.t.howard" Date: 2008-07-24T05:02:31+09:00 Subject: Re: Of GUIs threads and scheduling woes On Jul 23, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Glen Holcomb wrote: > Unfortunately it is, which is what I had feared was happening. I'm > not sure > if being out of focus for a prolonged time has the same effect or > not. I > was planning on testing that shortly. > > It would appear there is no way around this and that I will need > separate > processes. I noticed the mmap library is pretty old, is it > reliable? DRb > would do what I need but I'd rather do it without opening ports > since all > the processes would be on the same machine anyway. drb is the best best - just bind localhost and you'll be fine a @ http://codeforpeople.com/ -- we can deny everything, except that we have the possibility of being better. simply reflect on that. h.h. the 14th dalai lama