From: Chris Morris <chrismo@...>
Date: 2002-03-19T10:38:23+09:00
Subject: RE: Development of Windows version of Ruby

> What happens in the Ruby 1.6.6
> Windows version
> when someone uses these functions?

fork = false
popen = true if !irb

irb(main):001:0> fork do
irb(main):002:1* 3.times {|i| puts "Child: #{i}" }
irb(main):003:1> end
NotImplementedError: The fork() function is unimplemented on this machine
        from (irb):2:in `fork'
        from (irb):2

[don't try popen in irb on windows 95 ... at least not with Apache running]

C:\TEMP>copy con popen.rb
f = IO.popen("dir")
p f.readlines
^Z
        1 file(s) copied

C:\TEMP>ruby popen.rb
["\n", " Volume in drive C is MO-ONE     \n", " Volume Serial Number is
1854-16E
0\n", " Directory of C:\\TEMP\n", "\n", ".              <DIR>
03-08-99  8
:56p .\n", "..             <DIR>        03-08-99  8:56p ..\n", "DELETE   XML
       504  03-15-02 11:33p delete.xml\n", "POPEN    RB             36
03-18-02
  7:37p popen.rb\n", "         2 file(s)            540 bytes\n", "
2 di
r(s)      87,752,704 bytes free\n"]