From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-09-20T03:10:11+09:00
Subject: Re: fork not available?

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:26:15 +0900, walter@mwsewall.com wrote:
> Ok so I sent this out a bit too early.
> 
> 
> after looking in the archives some more I see that fork and popen("- ")
> do not work with Windows.  I see ri does mention that IO.popen is Not
> available on all platforms, but it does not mention this for Kernel.fork.
> 
> I basically have some setup code,  then would like two separate threads
> (real threads or processes, unless someone can point me in a way to get
> around the blocking issues), and then join and perform some finishing
> code.
> 
> Currently the total process take about 20 hours.  I want to get it so
> that it can run in less than 12 basically overnight.  Do I have to split
> the parts up as separate programs and deal with the sharing of data on my
> own?
> 
> any insight would be greatly appreciated.

You might want to look at taskmaster:
         http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=taskmaster

With this, you could set things up so that you can run the tasks on one 
computer or multiple computers.

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.09.19
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