From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2010-07-02T04:48:45+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR: IO.popen4

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> (2010/06/30 18:30), Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
>> We added both open3 and open4 because the existing implementations
>> used fork.
>
> You might already be aware of the fact, that 1.9's open3 no longer uses fork.

I did not, but this may help. I believe both spawn and detach should
be possible in JRuby, and the JDK's process-wrangling APIs work in a
similar way already.

We'll still need a custom version for 1.8 mode though.

- Charlie