From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-09-08T22:27:55+09:00
Subject: Re: a problem of waitting and printting out message


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@hypermetrics.com>
> > 
> > Is the following what you are looking for?
> > 
> > if fork then
> >   # parent process
> >   exit!
> > else
> >   # child process
> >   sleep 10
> >   puts "Now!"
> > end
> 
> I think Maggie is a Windows user (unless my
> memory is wrong). And this solution won't
> work on Windows.
>
> Since leaving the Cygwin DLL behind, we have
> lost fork() and popen3 and gained a thread-
> related bug that cripples many apps.

Speak for yourself, the above example works for me ;)

> Probably one of those situations where you
> have to take two steps back in order to 
> take three steps forward.

Sigh, I wish we could all dump Windows and get Mac OS X!

> Hal

--Gavin