From: Benoit Cerrina <benoit.cerrina@...>
Date: 2002-03-23T04:48:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows version of Ruby (proposals)

>
> I agree fully with you, and I also agree with what I think Matz is
> saying, that the 100% portable common core feature set should be
> expanded as much as possible, and should get assigned highest priority.
>
> Where it doesn't interfere with portability, the features&concepts can
> be inspired by UNIX.
>
>
> Tobi
>
By the way this would mean a fork_exec primitive could be there since we
can implement this on the different platforms, and it is considered to be
a very (the most) common use of fork.  The other uses of fork (with the
child benefiting from an initialisation for example) are usefull but are
not portable and should be separated.
Benoit