From: walter@...
Date: 2003-09-20T01:50:32+09:00
Subject: fork not available?

I am running windows 2000 using the PragProgs install.

I have tried fork but get an unimplemented on this machine error.  I 
have tried this on multiple windows 2000 machines and get the same 
error.

I have tried IO.popen("-") but just get an error stating that "-" is 
not recognized.

I am trying to get a long running program to use 2 separate 
processors. I have tried using Ruby's threads but the code is very 
database intensive and appears to block a lot so I do not see a speed 
improvement.  The code is separated enough that I should be able to 
cut the overall time significantly if I can get the 2 parts to run on 
separate processors.  

I am missing something stupid? Any thoughts?


Thanks,

Walt
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