From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-01-22T05:48:23+09:00
Subject: Re: ParseTree 3.0.3 Released

On Jan 21, 5:42 pm, Phlip <phlip2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Luis Lavena wrote:
> >> How is CygWin doing?
>
> > If you have installed the build tools (gcc and such) then using
> > RubyInline and ParseTree shouldn't be much problem for you.
>
> > Slow, yes, but maybe not lot of problems :-)
>
> When I tried (please don't ask me to reproduce the bug because I have moved on,
> and it should be easy), RubyInline kept getting stuck trying to rewrite its
> library at ~/.ruby_inline/blah_RubyInline_blah.so.
>

Well, cannot say about cygwin, I don't have it installed nor plan to
do it.

> The blah is not important because the root problem was something left zombie
> ruby.exe processes in memory - they apparently locked their previous .so files.

Ah, that Windows IO. file descriptors open (zombies) locks the files,
and you cannot remove or anything.

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Luis Lavena