From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2010-01-08T02:13:31+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR: fork(n) {|n| }



On Jan 5, 12:15 pm, Roger Pack <rogerpack2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently, it's surprising to me to have the semantics of fork differ
> from  thread.
>
> Currently with thread we allow (optionally) for
>
> Thread.new(n) {|n|
>
> }
>
> however fork is always
>
> fork {
>
> }
>
> Which makes it hard-ish-er to swap between the two, and it just
> surprises me when I see this fork call that disallows params.
> So my RCR is to allow for
> fork(n)
>
> Thoughts/feelings?

Not a direct answer, but this project may be of interest:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/parallelforkmgr/

Regards,

Dan