From: Jeremy Henty <jeremy@...>
Date: 2002-12-14T21:54:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby BUG when using PStore and fork

In article <1039771961.918542.10979.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp>,
Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

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

So is this a bug or a feature?  It is certainly alarming that you can
get a BUG message with a few lines of pure Ruby.  And why does the
child lose the ability to throw?

> Can you fork before starting transaction?

I can't fork the browser beforehand because the pstore holds the list
of URLs.  But I realised I could prefork a browser-spawning process
with IO.popen("-","w") and send it URLs from the parent.  Now the
browsers don't get the lock and it works very nicely.

Thanks

Jeremy Henty