From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-12-13T18:32:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby BUG when using PStore and fork

Hi,
In message "Re: Ruby BUG when using PStore and fork"
    on 02/12/13, Jeremy Henty <jeremy@chaos.org.uk> writes:

|>|PStore does not appear to play well with fork.  
|
|Update: it is nothing to do with PStore really.  The problem is throw
|(which PStore uses to implement abort).

Update: PStore does not work well with fork, because "throw" does not
work with fork.

|If I comment out "file.flock(File::LOCK_EX)" in pstore.rb then things
|work as I would like.  But I don't want to lose the protection of
|locking for all pstore applications.  I suspect the right thing to do
|is to fork before opening the pstore and use IPC to tell the child to
|spawn browsers.  I had hoped to avoid such complications, but maybe I
|should bite the bullet this time.  Unless someone has a better
|solution?

Can you fork before starting transaction?

							matz.