From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2002-10-17T11:45:35+09:00
Subject: Re: async system call on Windows?

I am interested in learning from your Ruby code ... if it is available for
public consumption, that is.
TIA,

-- shanko

"Chris Morris" <chrismo@clabs.org> wrote in message
news:003101c27543$f1da0110$22973acc@ntossu2lch...
> > I need a way to thread a system call to Windows without having the
entire
> > ruby process (all Ruby threads) wait for the system call to return.
>
> Following up...
>
> I did get the crtdll _spawn call working, though it sometimes segfaults
> ruby. I also got kernel32 CreateProcess going, that will also do what I
> need.
>
> Chris
> http://clabs.org
>
>