From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-12-14T23:55:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby BUG when using PStore and fork

Hi,

In message "Re: Ruby BUG when using PStore and fork"
    on 02/12/14, Jeremy Henty <jeremy@chaos.org.uk> writes:

|> 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?

It's a feature.  UNIX fork creates a copy of the process.  The parent
process and the child process no longer shares memory space, so that
there's "almost" no way to send a exception (or a throw) from a child
to a parent.

Parpahs the message is misleading.  It can be changed.  But the
behavior will remain unchanged.

							matz.